The Florentine Camerata found the existing vocal forms unsuitable for the clear and dramatic expression of a text for all of the following reasons except
A. they considered madrigalisms "childish" and sought a more natural method of expressing texts.
B. the combination of melodic lines in the polyphonic madrigal made it too easy to understand the words.
C. the use of the same melody for several verses of a strophic song belied any relationships between words and music.
D. the melody lines of the typical Renaissance madrigal were unrelated to the natural declamation of the words.
Answer: B
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