The Madrigals Flashcards
Italian secular music that would be written for 3-6 different voices
Madrigals
Sung by only one person but could be either replaced or helped by any instrument of the time.
Madrigals
They were usually sung seated and after meals, social gatherings or meetings of societies.
Madrigals
came from an earlier Italian form called the frottola
Madrigals
a homophonic song
Frotolla
was a tune to sing poetry and was the popular music of its time
Frotolla
would have four repeating stanzas, as opposed to the madrigal which was through-composed, meaning there was no repeating refrain and there would be brand new music for each line of text.
Frotolla
WRITERS/POETRY
Francesco Petrarca
Torquato Tasso
Giovan Battista Marino
would usually write homophonically for his four-voice madrigals and then use imitative polyphony for more singers
Early madrigalist (madrigal writer) Philippe Verdelot
composed with a mixture of both(homophony,polyphony)
Jacques Arcadelt
That would be usual practice for the midcentury madrigalists like
Cipriano de Rore
a composer writes music to reflect the meaning of the words
text painting
One of the most important features of the Italian Madrigal
text painting
In a way, it highlighted the impact of humanism on the music of the Renaissance period.
text painting
the homes of the upper and middle class in England began to be filled by Italian madrigals
1560s
was published and collection of Italian madrigals and translated into English.
Musica Transalpina
was one of the earliest and most well known of English madrigalists
Thomas Morley
In 1601, he published a collection of Madrigals entitled “______”, with each madrigal ending with the text “Long live fair Oriana”
The Triumphes of Oriana
Many believed that “Oriana” referred to the reigning monarch of that time
Queen Elizabeth
One of the madrigals from “The Triumphes of Oriana” is entitled
As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending
French had
chansons
German
lieder
England
English madrigals
