Renaissance

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  1. 2. characterizes musical texture with independent melodies that stand alone
  2. 6. a French seventeenth-century dance usually in quick duple meter with a single upbeat
  3. 7. a polyphonic choral composition based on sacred texts
  4. 8. The period of rediscovered classical ideals of the ancient Greeks that inspired a rebirth and revival of human creativity.
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  1. 1. music that portrays the meaning of the words of the text
  2. 3. a nonreligious vocal work in several parts (usually five)
  3. 4. a stringed instrument having a large pear-shaped body, a vaulted back, a fretted fingerboard, and a head with tuning pegs which is often angled backward from the neck (you will need to look this up
  4. 5. an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come again" and Flow my tears" (You will need to look this one up)