The Renaissance Period.
In the Renaissance period music became more accessible to the world beyond the church as printing became possible. Members of the upper-class started hiring composers to compose music under their patronage. Composers started developing more complex melodies by combining 2 or 3 melodies together in a piece. A few famous composers of this era are Claudio Monteverdi, William Byrd and John Downland.
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Western music has had a long list of musical development over the few hundred years and it's all thanks to our forefathers that the current Western music thrives, based on the vast expense of music theory. Some people coined this term as classical music.
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