Early Music Genres

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Across
  1. 2. The Italian f_______ was a strophic, syllabic, mostly homophonic song with the melody in the upper voice. (8)
  2. 4. The m_______ was the most important Italian secular genre of the sixteenth century. It was a through-composed musical setting of various type of Italian poetry without refrains. (8)
  3. 5. The v________ was the most important form of secular polyphonic song in Renaissance Spain. It always includes a refrain and one or more stanzas with the principal melody in the top voice. (10)
Down
  1. 1. The c_____ song was a distinctively English genre from around midcentury for voice. (7)
  2. 3. During the first half of the sixteenth century, composers cultivated a new type of French c_____ for amateur singers that was syllabic, mostly homophonic, usually strophic, and generally light-hearted. (7)