The Florentine Camerata advocated stile rappresentativo as the best way for singers to emphatically declaim the text in a manner that enabled the pitches and rhythms of the voice to match exactly the rhythms, accents, and sentiments of the text

The correct definition of alternatim technique is: a. moving the preexisting tune from the tenor line to the cantus. b. the verses of a chant are assigned to alternating performing forces, such asan organ and a choir

c. music for two, three, or four choirs placed in different parts of a building. d. a method of musical performance in which a divided choir alternately singsback and forth.

When were shaped notes first introduced?

A. early nineteenth century B. late eighteenth century C. mid-eighteenth century D. early eighteenth century