The fourteenth-century version consists of eleven-syllable  lines, arranged as two or three tercets, followed by a couplet,  with different music, known as the ritornello. The sixteenth-  century version is much freer, with three to fourteen lines of
The fourteenth-century version consists of eleven-syllable  lines, arranged as two or three tercets, followed by a couplet,  with different music, known as the ritornello. The sixteenth-  century version is much freer, with three to fourteen lines of  seven or eleven syllables each. FTP, Francesco Landini, Costanzo  Festa, Thomas Morley, and Claudio Monteverdi all excelled at what  form of secular choral music?
The fourteenth-century version consists of eleven-syllable  lines, arranged as two or three tercets, followed by a couplet,  with different music, known as the ritornello.
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