Handel wrote Italian operas that used ________ aria, whose form means "from the top."

In Renaissance dance, what is a step?

a) a series of body movementsthat together bring the dancer back to the position in which they began b) a circular motion that brings together two partners c) a series of metrical shifts that indicate the beginning, middle, and end of a dance d) the percussion instrument that set the tempo for each dance

The earliest brief playlets may have grown out of chanted or sung phrases incorporated into Mass as an embellishment or commentary on a religious lesson. What were these chanted or sung phrases called?

What will be an ideal response?