Describe the differentuse of musical texture in the music of the Renaissance and that of the Baroque. You may

include diagrams, but explain what their meaning



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ANSWER: Renaissance: polyphonic texture, with all voices of equal importance; Baroque: polarity between the top and
bottom lines, organized in a homophonic style rather than polyphonic

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