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[Highlighted extract from ‘The History of Western Music’ ‘THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD’ ‘Musical forms’]

‘Dance forms, a continuation of a tradition unbroken since the beginnings of recorded music history, were most characteristically composed in pairs, although single dances as well as embryonic suites of three or more dances appeared. The pairs usually consisted of pieces in contrasting tempo and metre that often were unified by sharing a common melody.’*

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**[Encyclopaedia Britannica 24: 554]

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