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the modification and decoration of plainchant melodies in early Renaissance music
embellishing chants with extra notes, setting them in graceful rhythms, smoothing out passages |
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| french for song, a genre of french secular music |
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| Words being sung to the rhythms and melodies that approximated normal speech |
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| matching the music to the meaning of the word |
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| usually a a sacred vocal composition. early motets were based on fragments of gregorian chants |
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Short composition set to one-stanza poem
main secular vocal genre of the Renaissance |
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| new way of treating plainchant in polyphonic compositions
a relaxed attitude toward medieval authority |
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| The high renaissance style |
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| blend of two kinds of musical texture, imitative counterpoint and homophony |
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