talian, rather than Latin. The Lauda was a song of praise and they also had many strophic songs.In the Ars Nova, any rhythm was possible. They also made use of secular polyphony. Isorhythm, in the early Rennaisance music, took chant and put it into a rhythmic pattern that didn't line up with anything and was used for a fundamental basis for the rest of the piece.During the Trecento in Italy, three styles of song came about: The madrigale, the caccia, and the ballatta. The caccia was a hunting or chasing song that had imitation in the music, one voice "chasing" the other and pastoral or hunting images in the text. the ballatta was a fixed form poetry with the same pattern as the Virelai (AbbaA).Two types of secular music making came toItaly: The frottola and the madrigal. The frottola was a syllabic, homophonic, and strophic style of music that was "fun sounding" and entertaining. It was usually written in 4 parts. An example of a frottola would be El grillo by Josquin. The madrigal was similar to the frottola with France-Flemish influences. It was almost always about love and was more dramatic than the frottola. It was also through-composed. However, late madrigals were more dissonant and there was more word painting involved in them. They were also more complex.The English Ballat was associated with dance. it was similar to the frottola in that it was treble dominated, syllabic, and homophonic and strophic, except it enede with soemthing, such as, "fa la la la".Musique Mesuree was measured music in Ancient style. It was based on the speech patterns of the Ancient Greek and Latin. They included long note values for accented syllables and short note values for non-accented syllables. It created and sounded like a mixed meter. the texts included a refrain, which had 5 voices. The first verse would start off with 2 voices and through each verse a voice would be added. The Spanish Villancico took a homophonic, strophic approach, just like t...
