1.   His early works are strongly influenced by Renaissance music.

2.   His language in these choral works pays homage to Renaissance sacred music but is spiked with bracingly astringent contemporary touches.

3.   I had brought along some music cassettes to beguile the evening hours, running the gamut from Renaissance choral music to rock.

4.   The group specialized in Renaissance choral music at first, but soon expanded its purview.

5.   The group rehearsed in the Essex church where Renaissance composer William Byrd had been organist and is buried, and concentrated on a repertoire of Renaissance choral music.

6.   The program was performed by the Tallis Scholars, a vocal ensemble directed by Peter Phillips that usually sings Renaissance music.

7.   There are reverent ballads about madonnas and saints that parallel Renaissance music and songs that pick up Arabic influences from across the Mediterranean.