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Definitions of madrigals in various dictionaries:
noun - an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices
verb - sing madrigals
noun - a short lyric poem
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Renaissance musical compositions |
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Mar 12 2009 USA Today |
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In 1622 Thomas Tomkkins published a set of these secular songs, some of the fa-la-la-last great ones |
Thomas Morley was known for putting lots of fa-la-las into these songs for several voices |
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Plural form of madrigal. |
a part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically unaccompanied and arranged in elaborate counterpoint. |
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A Madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six. It is quite distinct from the Italian Trecento madrigal of the late 13th and 14th centuries, with which it shares only the name.Madrigals originated in Italy during the 1520s. Unlike many strophic forms of the time, most madrigals were through-composed. In the madrigal, the composer attempted to express the emotion contained in each line, and sometimes individual words, of a celebrated poem. * The madrigal originated in part from the frottola, in part from the resurgence in interest in vernacular Italian poetry, and also from the influence of the French chanson and polyphonic style of the motet as written by the Franco-Flemish composers who had naturalized in Italy during the period. A frottola generally would consist of music set to stanzas of text, while ma |