Answer:
b. equal importance
Step-by-step explanation:
The Renaissance, in music, dates from the 14th century in southern Europe and a little later in northern Europe. Composers wanted to write secular music without worrying about church practices. They were drawn to the possibilities of polyphonic writing, in which each voice could have its own melodic line. Polyphonic writing provided technical opportunities for high-gloss effects that were impossible until then. A secular form of composition, madrigal, emerged in the fourteenth century in Italy. Composers wrote madrigals in their own language instead of using Latin. Flemish composers wrote works in this style, although they devoted themselves almost essentially to sacred composition.
In Italy, Giovanni Palestrina created the most important polyphonic writing system that preceded Bach. During the Renaissance, English music reached its apogee, great English madrigalist composers appeared who were singing the poetry of the time.