Other contributors have said "T are the categories for music of the renaissance?" is the same question as "What are the categories for music of the renaissance?" If you believe that these are not asking the same thing and should be answered differently, click here
What are the categories for music of the renaissance?
If you're asking about the similarities and differences between these two eras, then here are some things to consider: Across Europe, the most popular music well up until the Baroque period was folk...
Baroque music are composed by people like in the 1700's like Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann , Corelli, Purcell, Scarlatti , Rameau, Pachelbel, Monteverdi etc etc etc. But renaissance era is older...
To generalize, Renaissance composers sought to express celestial harmony, Baroque composers sought to depict human emotion. Compositionally, Renaissance music is a congruence of equal parts. Baroque...