Madrigals Flashcards
Italian?
Madrigals
Early?
1520s
Was?
Jacques Arcedelt
“With…”
“With a thousand deaths a day I may be content
Multiple?
Multiple imitative entrances
Then?
Mid century
Was?
Cipriano de Rore
Involved?
Syncopation
Frequent?
Rests - breathlessness of grief
Falling?
Minor thirds and semitones
Before Rores?
Generation chromaticism was rare
Then?
Late century
Was?
Luca Morenzio
Song?
Sole e penesso
Involved?
High chromatic ascent
And?
Striking literal images
With?
Heavy contrast between diatonic and chromatic writing
In general
Text dominates the music, with great attention paid to structure
Melodic?
Lines are more importune than the polyphony
Stylistic features include?
Imitation
Word?
Painting through melodic shape and rhythm
Complex?
Counterpoint and rhythms
Declamatory?
Word setting
Expressive?
Use of dissonance and chromaticism
Contrasts?
In dynamics
Solo?
Texture
English?
Musica Transalpina
In?
1588
Taken up by?
Morely, Wilbye and Weekes
Who?
Modelled their madrigals on the Italian style
Using?
Word painting
Who modelled most closely?
Thomas Morely
What songs?
“My bonny lass she smileth
Dance?
Metres of repeating sections
With?
“Fa la la” refrain
The?
Triumphs of Oriana
Was?
A collections of madrigals by several composers showing expressive and declamatory word-setting while painting natural accents of words
Weekes?
As vesta was