Editing Renaissance music (section)

===Transition to the Baroque===
{{see also|Transition from Renaissance to Baroque in instrumental music}}
Beginning in [[Florence]], there was an attempt to revive the dramatic and musical forms of Ancient Greece, through the means of [[monody]], a form of declaimed music over a simple accompaniment; a more extreme contrast with the preceding polyphonic style would be hard to find; this was also, at least at the outset, a secular trend. These musicians were known as the [[Florentine Camerata]].

We have already noted some of the musical developments that helped to usher in the [[Baroque music|Baroque]], but for further explanation of this transition, see [[antiphon]], [[concertato]], [[monody]], [[madrigal (music)|madrigal]], and opera, as well as the works given under "Sources and further reading."