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Instrumental Dance Music |
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Listen to Instrumental Dance Music of the Renaissance The role of instrumentalist in the Renaissance was such that many of the best composers wrote for instruments with or without voices. The dance music tended to be more elaborate, more stylized and more artistic. Instruments and music for instruments developed significantly during this period. Instrumental music was to become one of the great glories of the Baroque era and the basis for this was laid in the Renaissance. Instruments often played along with singers in vocal music and sometimes performed vocal genres as instrumental pieces by themselves. Typical instruments of the Renaissance:
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