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In the 19th century, the madrigal was the best-known music from the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) consequent to the prolific publishing of sheet music in the 16th and 17th centuries, even before the rediscovery of the madrigals of the composer Palestrina (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina).
The following list includes almost all of the composers of the English Madrigal School who published works. Many of these were amateur composers, some known only for a single book of madrigals, and some for an even smaller contribution. Thomas Bateson (c 1570–1630) John Bennet (c 1575–after 1614) John Bull (1562–1628) William Byrd (1543 ...
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.
A madrigal dinner or madrigal feast is a form of Renaissance dinner theater often held by schools and church groups during the Christmas season. [1] It is set in the Renaissance Era and is generally comedic in nature. The meal is divided into courses, each of which is heralded with a traditional song.
The words to this madrigal have been set to music by numerous other musicians: Martin Amlin (1984), for soprano and piano, from Four Songs on Texts of Anonymous Poets [39] Gary Bachlund (1966), for a cappella SATB chorus. [39] Garth Baxter, from Three Madrigals (for voice and piano, voice and guitar, or SATB). [40]
Alessandro Striggio (c. 1536/1537 – 29 February 1592) was an Italian composer, instrumentalist and diplomat of the Renaissance.He composed numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music, and by combining the two, became the inventor of madrigal comedy.
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Later madrigal comedies are sometimes divided into acts, including a prologue, and while not "acted" in the sense of an opera, they may have been performed on stage with elaborate painted backdrops (for example, the woodcut showing the prologue of Orazio Vecchi's L'Amfiparnaso (1597): a singer is evidently in costume in a backdrop showing a ...