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| church modes | Gregorian modes-eight systems of pitch organization used to describe Gregorian chant. |
| drone | a continuous note or chord, or the part of various musical instruments that produces such a sound |
| cantus firmus | ("fixed song") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition |
| mass ordinary | 4 |
| Gregorian chant | central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services. |
| organum | a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony, developed in the Middle Ages.6 |
| sacred | state of being holy (perceived by religious individuals as associated with the divine |
| secular | state of being separate from religion.[1] |
| Renaissance | 9 |
| Humanism | 10 |
| word painting | 11 |
| a capella | music is solo or group vocal or singing without instrumental sound |
| lute | can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes |
| venetian school | a term used to describe the composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610; it also describes the music they produced. |
| motet | a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions |
| madrigal | a type of secular vocal music composition, written during the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Throughout most of its history it was polyphonic and unaccompanied by instruments, with the number of voices varying from two to eight, but most frequently three to six. |
| polychoral motet | 17 |
