Elizabethan composers such as John Dowland, for example, transformed the poetry and music of the English Renaissance into madrigals and other musical styles in Shakespeare's England. As a result, art song became notably popular during the Romantic era of 19th-century Europe, and it is frequently regarded as a type of Romantic music. Art songs can be divided up into several different categories: salon songs, chansonettes, cantatas, oratorios, and masses. Salon songs were popular in Paris during the 18th century, when they were sung at social gatherings by women with beautiful voices. They usually consisted of simple melody lines accompanied by an ensemble of harpsichords or pianos. Chansonettes are short French songs that were popular among the nobility in 17th-and 18th-century France. They often include a vocal part for one voice accompanied by an instrument such as a guitar or a harpsichord. Cantatas are large-scale poems for voice and orchestra that were popular throughout Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. They often include multiple movements based on a single poem. Oratorios are religious dramas that use music to express the emotions of the characters within the story. Oratorios first came into popularity in Italy during the 1560s. They are usually composed for many voices and instruments, such as choir, organ, and violin.