The Renaissance Of Religious Music Creation Spirit Connotation Of Cultural Analysis

After a thousand years of feudal medieval, western society had moved into a newera of Renaissance period since the 14th century. Due to the effect of humanism spiriton the field of culture, personal consciousness began to be released. Since the Swisshistorian Jacob Burckhardt published his famous book "Italian Renaissance culture”inthe nineteenth century, Renaissance gets more and more attention.Chinese professionals have always been used to considering not only Renaissancehumanist contrasted against religious music, but also the so-called "humanism" wasreleased from the "shackles" of religion, and thus opposed to the ideological andcultural movement believed by Christian. In this view, it is apparently arbitrary tosimply regard the Renaissance as humanitarian against Shinto or human nature againstthe divinity. However, the spiritual essence of the European Renaissance is humanism.Humanism is "human-centered", advocates promoting human rights, human nature. Buthumanism is not necessarily opposed to the belief, neither to religion. In this paper, wewill put forward our own arguments at the unilateral and simplistic knowledge ofRenaissance religious music.We will further analyze the specific religious music worksfrom that period，trying to figure out the spiritual content of Renaissance music, i.e.,Religious music always reflected the concern of individuals. Exploration of the humanspirit in the religious music of the Renaissance will help us understand more about theimportant role of Christian music in the history of Western music.This paper consists of introduction, three chapters and conclusion. Theintroduction is about the background of the subject and the current status and methods,the author explored the relationship between humanism and religious spirit through avariety of approaches. The first section in first chapter is based on the source of thetraditional theory of humanism and Renaissance humanism. The second sectiondiscusses the relationship between Christianity and humanism. On one hand,Christianity was embodied in the ultimate concern of the human spirit, on the otherhand, humanists promoted the humanewithout opposing to Shinto. In the second chapter,we made the Flemish School of Music a entry point, taking Johannes Ockeghem’sMissa"l ’ Homme Arme"And Josquin des Prez’s motet "Ave Maria" as examples, toanalyze the humanistic connotation of this kind of music which was affected byhumanism. The third chapter is about the music of the 16th century ProtestantReformation thought and the human spirit.We introduced the German religious reformer Martin Luther and typical Lutheran Chorale "From the depths of Woe I the Raise tothee" and "A mighty fortress is our God", as well as Catholic music composer G.Pl.daPalestrina’s "Missa Papae Marcelli"and Venice Musician Giovanni Gabrieli’srepresentative work. . The spirit of hum anism could be observed among this religiousmusic. Finally, the conclusion of this article tried to summarize and distill the culturalconnotation of the religious music in Renaissance.