How did the reformation impact music

The Reformation had a significant impact on church music. The song schools of the abbeys, cathedrals and collegiate churches were closed down, choirs disbanded, music books and manuscripts destroyed and organs removed from churches.

1. How did the Reformation and Counter Reformation affect music?
2. What is the Reformation in music?
3. What was the effect of the Protestant Reformation on music during the Renaissance?
4. What impact did the Reformation have?

How did the Reformation and Counter Reformation affect music?

The musical changes that took place in the Counter Reformation were changes that set the precedent for church music in years to come of the 17th and 18th centuries, even affecting the church music heard in Catholic masses around the world today.

What is the Reformation in music?

The great cultural and religious schism of the 16th century democratised music and participation, creating the template for modern classical music. It began 500 years ago, with Martin Luther's 95 Theses in 1517, and has never really ended.

What was the effect of the Protestant Reformation on music during the Renaissance?

The most important impact on religious music in Europe following the Protestant Reformation is that composers of Protestant music could now write texts in their own vernacular. Beforehand, the Roman Catholic Church dominated much of Europe and it was only permissible to give mass and write music in Latin.

What impact did the Reformation have?

The Reformation became the basis for the founding of Protestantism, one of the three major branches of Christianity. The Reformation led to the reformulation of certain basic tenets of Christian belief and resulted in the division of Western Christendom between Roman Catholicism and the new Protestant traditions.