Many Renaissance forms such as motets, masses, and madrigals make extensive use of imitation and polyphony in ways that can make it difficult to see what is going when first looking at a score. In this video post, I show how to quickly get a sense of the overall structure of a motet or similar form.

Here is a version of the score I use as my example: https://musescore.com/user/33131263/s.... It's not the same version, and it has some formatting issues, but it should be accurate enough to use if you would like to continue the analysis or hear the playback.

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