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Renaissance Characteristics: Melody

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Renaissance Characteristics: Rhythm

Non-metric

Renaissance Characteristics: Tonality

Modes

Renaissance Characteristics: Texture

Polyphonic

Renaissance Characteristics: Timbre

Human voice


Lute

Renaissance Characteristics: Form

Binary, imitation, contrast