In twelfth-century Paris, sacred music composers began creating a body of music that satisfied the creative desire to gloss the original plainchant by providing different layers of musical "commentary" above the plainchant. That body of music is known as?

a) the motet
b) the clausula
c) the polytextual motet
d) the conductus

b

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A. wood engraving. B. serigraphy. C. stone relief. D. aquatint. E. lithography.

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The singer and composer associated with the royal chapel of Charles VII and later kings of France was:

A) Guillaume Dufay B) Gilles Binchois C) Johannes Ockeghem D) all of these choices

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