... was primarily a cappella, unaccompanied choral music. The two types of Renaissance music are the mass and the motet. They are similar in style, although a mass is much lengthier in composition. Josquin Desprez, a famous renaissance composer, is known for his four-part polyphonic motet, Ave Maria virgo serena. Another prominent Renaissance composer who dedicated his life to music was Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ... ...

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