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Secular music is non-sacred music that developed in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 and was used in the renaissance .renaissance musicians wrote a lot of secular music. Swaying authority from the church
Christian Church

Christian Church and the word church are used to denote both a Christian Groups of people and a Church . The word church is usually, but not exclusively, associated with Christianity....
 that focused more on Common Law
Common law

Common law refers to law and the corresponding Legal systems of the world developed through legal opinion of courts and similar tribunals , rather than through statute law or Executive ....
 influenced all aspects of Medieval life, including music. Secular music in the Middle Ages included love songs, political satire
Political satire

Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly forbidden....
, dances, and dramatic works. Drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
s, harps
Harps

Harps is the plural of harp, a stringed musical instrument.Harps can also refer to:*Harps GAA, an Irish sports club* High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, a spectrograph used for research in astronomy....
, recorder
Recorder

The recorder is a woodwind instrument musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina....
s, and bagpipes
Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reed fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have historically been found throughout Europe, and into Northern Africa, the Persian...
 were the instruments
Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
 used in secular music because they were easy for the traveling musicians to tote around.






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Secular music is non-sacred music that developed in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
 and was used in the renaissance .renaissance musicians wrote a lot of secular music. Swaying authority from the church
Christian Church

Christian Church and the word church are used to denote both a Christian Groups of people and a Church . The word church is usually, but not exclusively, associated with Christianity....
 that focused more on Common Law
Common law

Common law refers to law and the corresponding Legal systems of the world developed through legal opinion of courts and similar tribunals , rather than through statute law or Executive ....
 influenced all aspects of Medieval life, including music. Secular music in the Middle Ages included love songs, political satire
Political satire

Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly forbidden....
, dances, and dramatic works. Drum
Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion instrument group, technically classified as a membranophone.. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with parts of a player's body, or with some sort of implement such as a drumstick, to produce sound....
s, harps
Harps

Harps is the plural of harp, a stringed musical instrument.Harps can also refer to:*Harps GAA, an Irish sports club* High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, a spectrograph used for research in astronomy....
, recorder
Recorder

The recorder is a woodwind instrument musical instrument of the family known as fipple flutes or internal duct flutes — whistle-like instruments which include the tin whistle and ocarina....
s, and bagpipes
Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones using enclosed reed fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have historically been found throughout Europe, and into Northern Africa, the Persian...
 were the instruments
Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an object constructed or used for the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound can serve as a musical instrument....
 used in secular music because they were easy for the traveling musicians to tote around. Instruments were taught through oral tradition and provided great dancing music and accompanied the stanzas well. Words are a large part of secular music so that common people can sing songs together for entertainment. Music styles were changed by secularization
Secularization

Secularization or secularisation generally refers to people of transformation by which a society migrates from close identification with religious institutions to a more separated relationship....
. The motet
Motet

In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choir musical compositions.The name comes either from the Latin movere, or a Latinized version of Old French mot, "word" or "verbal utterance." The Medieval Latin for "motet" is "motectum", and the Italian mottetto was also used....
 for example, moved out of the church and into the courts of nobility which then caused the motet to be forbidden in the church. The largest collection of secular music comes from poems about celebration and chivalry
Chivalry

Chivalry is a term relating to the medieval institution of knighthood. It is usually associated with ideals of knightly virtues, honor and courtly love....
 of the troubadour
Troubadour

A troubadour was a composer and performer of Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages .The troubadour school or tradition began in the eleventh century in Occitania, but it subsequently spread into Italy, Spain, and even Greece....
s from the south of France. These poems contain clever rhyme-schemes, varied use of refrain-lines or words, and different metric
Metre (music)

Meter or metre is a concept related to an underlying division of time characteristic of western music. The concept provides that the pattern, is usually 2, 3, or 4 beats long, , and each beat may be normally divided into 2 or 3 basic subdivisions ....
 patterns. Composers such as Josquin Des Prez
Josquin Des Prez

Josquin des Prez , often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish School composer of the Renaissance music. He is also known as Josquin Desprez, a French rendering of Dutch language "Josken Van De Velde", diminutive of "Joseph Van De Velde" , and Latinized as Josquinus Pratensis, alternatively Jodocus Pratens...
 did compositions for sacred and secular music. He composed 86 highly successful secular works in addition to the 119 sacred pieces. Secular music also was aided by the formation of literature during the reign of Charlemagne
Charlemagne

Charlemagne was List of Frankish kings from 768 to his death. He expanded the Franks kingdoms into a Carolingian Empire that incorporated much of Western Europe and Central Europe....
 that included a collection of secular and semi-secular songs.