Adrian Willaert’s innovations with the New Music’s madrigals helped secular song by

a. enabling it to be performed by a single voice.
b. raising it to the level of the religious motet.
c. creating the form that would become opera.
d. allowing it to be adapted for religious services.


Answer: b. raising it to the level of the religious motet.

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