Styles

• A Pavan is a renaissance court dance with 2 beats in the bar and is often followed by a galliard
• A Galliard is a renaissance court dance with 3 beats in the bar
• A Motet is a sacred choral work with Latin text and polyphonic texture, usually sung A Capella
• A Motet has the same characteristics as the Mass, but uses any Latin text as it is not of the fixed church service
• An Ayr is a song or simple melody, sometimes the title of a movement or suite
• An Ayr is usually a solo singer, accompanied by one intrument e.g. lute or viol
• An Ayr is in strophic structure
• Madrigal is unaccompanied vocal music with a through composed structure
• A Madrigal is a renaissance, non-religious work with polyphonic texture and uses imitation
• A Ballett is a type of madrigal in strophic form which was originally danced to
• A Ballett usually includes the words Fa-La-La
• An Anthem is a short sacred piece sung in English
• An Anthem is sometimes sung by a choir unaccompanied and sometimes accompanied by an organ featuring solo parts