What best describes the text setting of the first section of Ma fin est mon commencement (My end is my beginning) ?

The correct answer is melismatic.

Explanation:

Melisma is the technique of changing the musical height of a syllable of the lyrics of a song while singing. Music sung in this way is known as melismatic, as opposed to syllabic, in which each syllable in the text is paired with a simple note. According to Jesús Giralt i Radigales, he can refer to the music of Ancient Greece, in which a long note was replaced by a succession of short notes, or to the Gregorian Chant in which several notes were sung on the same syllable.