When the campaign against the new songs proved ineffective, the Catholic Church, at the Council of Trent (1545-1563) launched a musical counter-reformation, calling for an end to complex but unintelligible chants, simpler melodies, and more serious and elevated lyrics.
When the campaign against the new songs proved ineffective, the Catholic Church, at the Council of Trent (1545-1563) which launched the Counter-Reformation, also launched a musical counter-reformation. It was calling for an end to complex but unintelligible chants, simpler melodies, and more serious and elevated lyrics.