The Madrigals

Question 1

Italian secular music that would be written for 3-6 different voices

Answer 1

Madrigals

Question 2

Sung by only one person but could be either replaced or helped by any instrument of the time.

Answer 2

Madrigals

Question 3

They were usually sung seated and after meals, social gatherings or meetings of societies.

Answer 3

Madrigals

Question 4

came from an earlier Italian form called the frottola

Answer 4

Madrigals

Question 5

a homophonic song

Answer 5

Frotolla

Question 6

was a tune to sing poetry and was the popular music of its time

Answer 6

Frotolla

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Frotolla

Question 8

WRITERS/POETRY

Answer 8

Francesco Petrarca
Torquato Tasso
Giovan Battista Marino

Question 9

would usually write homophonically for his four-voice madrigals and then use imitative polyphony for more singers

Answer 9

Early madrigalist (madrigal writer) Philippe Verdelot

Question 10

composed with a mixture of both(homophony,polyphony)

Answer 10

Jacques Arcadelt

Question 11

That would be usual practice for the midcentury madrigalists like

Answer 11

Cipriano de Rore

Question 12

a composer writes music to reflect the meaning of the words

Answer 12

text painting

Question 13

One of the most important features of the Italian Madrigal

Answer 13

text painting

Question 14

In a way, it highlighted the impact of humanism on the music of the Renaissance period.

Answer 14

text painting

Question 15

the homes of the upper and middle class in England began to be filled by Italian madrigals

Answer 15

1560s

Question 16

was published and collection of Italian madrigals and translated into English.

Answer 16

Musica Transalpina

Question 17

was one of the earliest and most well known of English madrigalists

Answer 17

Thomas Morley

Question 18

In 1601, he published a collection of Madrigals entitled “______”, with each madrigal ending with the text “Long live fair Oriana”

Answer 18

The Triumphes of Oriana

Question 19

Many believed that “Oriana” referred to the reigning monarch of that time

Answer 19

Queen Elizabeth

Question 20

One of the madrigals from “The Triumphes of Oriana” is entitled

Answer 20

As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending

Question 21

French had

Answer 21

chansons

Question 22

German

Answer 22

lieder

Question 23

England

Answer 23

English madrigals