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The English Madrigal School was the intense flowering of the musical madrigal in England, mostly from 1588 to 1627, along with the composers who produced them. The English madrigals were a cappella, predominantly light in style, and generally began as either copies or direct translations of Italian models. Most were for three to six voices.
Fair Phyllis (also Fair Phyllis I saw, Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone) is an English madrigal by John Farmer. The music is polyphonic and was published in 1599. The madrigal contains four voices and uses occasional imitation. It also alternates between triple and duple beat subdivisions of the beat in different parts of the work.
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]
It contains words and full music for some 60 of the madrigals and songs of the English Madrigal School. When selecting works for this book, Ledger decided to represent the major composers of 16th-century English music such as William Byrd and Thomas Morley with several madrigals, alongside individual works by lesser-known composers.
Baci soavi e cari (Giovanni Battista Guarini)Bella Angioletta, da le vaghe piume (Torquato Tasso)Come esser può ch'io viva (Alessandro Gatti)Felice primavera (Tasso) Gelo ha madonna il seno (Tasso)
In 1588 Nicholas Yonge published his Musica transalpina, the collection of Italian madrigals fitted with English texts, which touched off the explosive and colourful vogue for madrigal composition in England. Morley found his compositional direction at this time, and shortly afterwards began publishing his own collections of madrigals (11 in all).
Ellis Gibbons - Long live faire Oriana (1601), cantus part Other than two madrigals for The Triumphs of Oriana, [18] no works by Gibbons survive. [17] He was the only composer to contribute two madrigals to The Triumphs of Oriana other than the editor, Morley. [17]
John Bennet (c. 1575 – after 1614) was a composer of the English Madrigal School. Little is known for certain of Bennet's life, but his first collection of madrigals was published in 1599. Little is known for certain of Bennet's life, but his first collection of madrigals was published in 1599.