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| French forme fixe in the pattern A bba A, in which a refrain (A) alternates with stanzas with the musical FORM bba, the a using the same music as the refrain. |
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| French forme fixe, normally in three stanzas, in which each stanza has the musical FORM aab and ends with a refrain. |
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| French forme fixe with a single stanza and the musical form ABaAabAB, with capital letters indicating lines of refrain and lowercase letters indicating new text set to music from the refrain. |
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| One voice chases other. *Fourteenth-century Italian FORM featuring two voices in CANON over a free untexted TENOR. |
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| Treble dominated, 2-3 voices, a dance song. AbbaA *Fourteenth-century Italian song in which A is the refrain, and the single stanza consists of two piedi (bb) and a volta (a) sung to the music of the refrain. |
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| Subtle, more refined art tailored towards the upper class, pushing rhythmic limits*Style of POLYPHONY from the late fourteenth or very early fifteenth centuries in southern France and northern Italy, distinguished by extreme complexity in rhythm and NOTATION |
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| One note sung per each syllable of text |
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| A long MELODIC passage sung to a single syllable of text. |
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| 1-6 notes sung to each syllable of text |
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| Generally aab form Fourteenth-century Italian satirical love poetic form and its musical setting having two or three stanzas |
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