Round 7: Tossup 10

A piece in this genre that modulates nearly every measure, titled “Carmina chromatico,” begins the cycle Prophetiae Sibyllarum. An essay partially titled for King Solomon’s Temple disputes Charles Warren’s claim that the 6-to-4-to-2-to-3 ratio employed by a piece in this genre reflects Brunelleschi’s dome for the Florence cathedral. The color (“KO-lor”) and talea make up the tenor line in a variant of this originally polytextual genre. Philippe de Vitry developed that isorhythmic variant of this genre, which is exemplified by Guillaume Du Fay’s Nuper Rosarum Flores. Eight choirs of five voices (10[1])are needed to perform a piece in this genre by Thomas Tallis, titled Spem in Alum. For 10 points, Mozart’s (10[1])Ave Verum Corpus is in what genre of Latin-language polyphony often contrasted with the madrigal? (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

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