Early Renaissance sacred music was still frequently based on Gregorian chant.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
For many of early Renaissance sacred music, composers continued to use chant melodies as one of the voices, but for the first time they did not keep the chant in the bass. Composers wrote new bass lines and placed the chant in another voice above it.
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