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Early music is a modern performance movement devoted to the repertoire of the Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque eras (roughly before c. 1750), approached with historically informed performance (HIP) practices.

Renaissance music (c. 1400–1600) marks the shift from medieval sonorities to a clearer, triad-based polyphony in which multiple independent voices are treated with near-equal importance.

Music of the Trecento refers to Italian secular (and some sacred) polyphony of the 14th century, roughly from the 1320s through about 1420. It is often called the Italian Ars Nova and is best known for three vernacular song forms: the madrigale, the ballata, and the caccia.

Medieval music refers to the diverse sacred and secular musical practices of Europe between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the dawn of the Renaissance. It spans more than eight centuries, from early monophonic chant to the first notated polyphony.