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A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1600–1750) [citation needed] periods, although revisited by some later European composers. [1] The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number of voices varies from two to eight, but the form usually features three ...
1.6 Book VI (Madrigali libro sesto), op. 14, five voices. (Gesualdo, 1611) 2 Sacred works. ... Scores at the International Music Score Library Project This page was ...
[1] Word painting developed especially in the late 16th century among Italian and English composers of madrigals, to such an extent that word painting devices came to be called madrigalisms. While it originated in secular music, it made its way into other vocal music of the period.
A madrigale spirituale (Italian; pl. madrigali spirituali) is a madrigal, or madrigal-like piece of music, with a sacred rather than a secular text.Most examples of the form date from the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and principally come from Italy and Germany.
"The Silver Swan" is a madrigal by Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625), composed during the early Baroque period. Gibbons's best-known song and among the most admired English madrigals, it is scored for five voices—cantus, quintus, alto, tenor and bass.
"Ancor che col partire" is a four-voice Italian-language madrigal with music by the Italy-based Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore first published by Antonio Gardano in 1547. . The madrigal became de Rore's most popular work, one of the most widely distributed madrigals of the entire 16th Century, and was the basis for further variations, adaptations and ornamentations by many other composers ...
Madrigal composers (1 C, 60 P) E. English madrigals (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Madrigals" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Concerted madrigal is a madrigal music style in which any number of voices combine with instruments, whether just basso continuo or basso continuo and others. The development of this style was one of the defining features of the beginning of the Baroque musical era. An example of this is Claudio Monteverdi's Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti.