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Lutheran music developed and flourished within the broader secular Renaissance musical culture. Luther and his contemporaries were too widely educated not to be acquainted with and be influenced by the best secular music of their time. The Renaissance secular music included a flourishing tradition of the French chanson, the Italian frottola and lauda, the German Lied, and the madrigal, all written by a wide variety of composers. Instrumental music was common for lute, harpsichord, clavichord, and organ. Such instrumental forms as the canzona, fantasia, toccata--together with a variety of dance-related music--all contributed to a vital and flourishing musical culture. Among many other Composers who contributed to these secular developments were:
The publication of the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton by Ottaviano Petrucci
was a singular event at the very beginning of the 16th Century. It reflected
the developing art and growing importance of music printing and its significance
in the future promulgation of early Lutheranism's music.
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