The Renaissance was the Golden Age of: Select one:

Vocal music accompanied by large instrumental ensembles

Choral composition for small ensembles

Compositions for large choral ensembles

Compositions for solo voice and instrumental ensemble

None of the answers available; the Renaissance witnessed the birth of instrumental music.

Explanation:

The early Renaissance secular music was mostly vocal (the religious tradition) but instrumental music in its own right was developing rapidly, due to the humanistic movement that broke free from the religious spell. This Renaissance instrumental music was very much depending on the European courts. Renaissance instrumentalists like Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580-1650) and Francisco da Milano (1497-1543) and other found a willing ear among the European courts for their instrumental transcriptions of vocal music, using the lute as the most adequate instrument to do so.