What is the correct definition of conductus?

a. Music for two, three, or four choirs placed in different parts of a church.
b. A monophonic spiritual melody or religious folksong.
c. A extra-liturgical composition for one or more voices, normally based on aserious or moralistic Latin poem and arranged in successive stanzas

d. A section, phrase, or "musical clause" in a medieval composition.


c

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