Context: In western music, a motet is a mainly vocal musical composition, of highly varied form and style, from the late medieval era to the present. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music. According to Margaret Bent, "a piece of music in several parts with words" is as precise a definition of the motet as will serve from the 13th to the late 16th century and beyond. The late 13th-century theorist Johannes de Grocheo believed that the motet was "not to be celebrated in the presence of common people, because they do not notice its subtlety, nor are they delighted in hearing it, but in the presence of the educated and of those who are seeking out subtleties in the arts.", Baroque music (or ) is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era. Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, being widely studied, performed, and listened to. Key composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arcangelo Corelli, Tomaso Albinoni, François Couperin, Giuseppe Tartini, Heinrich Schütz, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Johann Pachelbel., Concertato is a term in early Baroque music referring to either a "genre" or a "style" of music in which groups of instruments or voices share a melody, usually in alternation, and almost always over a basso continuo. The term derives from Italian "concerto" which means "playing together" hence "concertato" means "in the style of a concerto." In contemporary usage, the term is almost always used as an adjective, for example "three pieces from the set are in "concertato" style.", Renaissance music is vocal and instrumental music written and performed in Europe during the Renaissance era. Consensus among music historians  with notable dissent  has been to start the era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and to close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque period, therefore commencing the musical Renaissance about a hundred years after the beginning of the Renaissance as it is understood in other disciplines. As in the other arts, the music of the period was significantly influenced by the developments which define the Early Modern period: the rise of humanistic thought; the recovery of the literary and artistic heritage of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; increased innovation and discovery; the growth of commercial enterprises; the rise of a bourgeois class; and the Protestant Reformation. From this changing society emerged a common, unifying musical language, in particular the polyphonic style (this means music with multiple, independent melody lines performed simultaneously) of the Franco-Flemish school, whose greatest master was Josquin des Prez., Ignazio Donati ( c. 1570 -- 21 January 1638 ) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era . He was one of the pioneers of the style of the concertato motet . Donati was born in Casalmaggiore ( now in the Province of Cremona ) . Little is known about his earliest years , but he must have had a thorough early musical training , and his succession of posts at various cathedrals in Italian towns is well documented : he served successively at Urbino , Pesaro , Fano , Ferrara , Casalmaggiore , Novara , and Lodi , eventually acquiring the prestigious post at Milan Cathedral in 1629 , which he kept with one short break until his death . Donati wrote `` sacred concertos '' , motets , masses and psalm settings . Most of Donati 's music is sacred , and his style tends towards the cheerful , the light , and the practical . He wrote motets using the new concertato style pioneered by the composers of the Venetian School , though he was not associated with Venice himself . Most of his music is for two to five voices with instrumental accompaniment including basso continuo , and some of his works -- for example a book of psalm settings -- exist in several settings for different types of performance , with different instrumental and vocal forces . Ignazio Donati wrote the Sacri concentus and published it in Venice in 1612 ; here he defined the `` cantar lontano '' vocal practice . In some of his music he went even farther , and suggested multiple performance ideas -- from singing only a very few parts , to using multiple choruses with instrumental doubling , based on the resources of the performing ensemble and the type of effect required by the performance occasion . This kind of practical advice is rarely found in the writings accompanying the music of the Venetian school composers , who had massive , virtuoso , well - paid ensembles at their disposal , but it would have been essential to the musical establishments at the small provincial towns in which Donati worked . In addition to his concertato motets and other mixed instrumental - vocal music , he wrote some relatively conservative masses , which , however , are not in the polyphonic Palestrina style but find a middle - ground between the stile antico and the more modern harmonic practice ., Subject: ignazio donati, Relation: movement, Options: (A) baroque (B) baroque music (C) renaissance
Output: baroque music