A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.
An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.
primarily a C16 choral idiom developed in Italy, patterned after certain poetic forms (often Petrarca), and later common in England.
secular choral work flourishing in the 16th and 17th centuries; later called part song
A vocal form that arose in Italy during the sixteenth century and developed into the most ambitious secular form of the Renaissance.
Part-song for 3 or more voices, generally with a secular text, and specifically identified as a madrigal
(OALD) (esp 16-century) song for several voices, usu without instrumental accompaniment, on the themes of love and/or nature.
a secular texted song in the common language of the region.
A popular form of secular music in the Renaissance. It usually consisted of a group of unaccompanied solo singers and had texts about anything from barnyard animals to dying swans. Madrigals usually were fairly polyphonic and included word painting and imitation. ( Lesson 6) HEAR IT
The name given to two different kinds of musical composition, one in the fourteenth century and one in the sixteenth century, which have nothing in common but their name. Extremely popular in Italy, the fourteenth century madrigal was usually written for two or three voices in two or three three-line stanzas, resembling the pastourelles of the Troubadours in both content and structure. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the madrigal meant a song for several voices arranged in complicated counterpoint and performed without musical accompaniment.
Secular vocal composition.
a secular composition of the 14th through 17th centuries, written for four, five, or six unaccompanied voices.
a non religious vocal form in several parts
early from of barber-shop songs, now usually sung during the summer, outdoors in the rain
(1) A 14th century Italian style of setting secular verse for two or three unaccompanied voices (2) a 16th/17th century contrapuntal setting of verse (usually secular) for several equally important voice parts, usually unaccompanied.
an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form
a part-song sung by several voices
Renaissance choral piece, usually unaccompanied.
Renaissance secular work originating in Italy for voices, with or without instruments.
an Italian secular genre using the form a a b or a a a b. If polyphonic, the top line is often more florid than the bottom. Not related to the sixteenth-century madrigal. Magnus liber organi (The Great Book of Organum) A collection of organa for various special occasions throughout the church year, said to have been composed by Leonin (fl. ca. 1163-90) with additions by Perotin (fl. ca. 1200). See Notre-Dame organum.
This is a poetic and musical form of the 14th century; also, in the 16th and 17th centuries of various types and forms of secular verse.
a 16th-century secular piece for four or more voices which emphasized the meaning of words.
A 16th-century Italian (or English) song for three to eight voices.
a polyphonic vocal setting, usually unaccompanied, of various kinds of verse that was extremely popular from the early 16th century to the middle of the 17th century, particularly in Italy. By the middle of the 16th century, the genre was used as fertile ground for musical experimentation.
a nonreligious vocal form in several parts; popular in the Renaissance
A short love poem which can easily be set to music.
A form of composition for unaccompanied voices, which was developed during the early Renaissance.
A madrigal is a setting for 2 or more voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins in the frottola, and was also influenced by the motet and the French chanson of the Renaissance. It is related mostly by name alone to the Italian trecento madrigal of the late 13th and 14th centuries; those madrigals were settings for 2 or 3 voices without accompaniment, or with instruments possibly doubling the vocal lines.
The Madrigal is an Italian musical form of the 14th century. The form flourished ca. 1300 – 1370 with a short revival near 1400. It was a composition for two (or rarely three) voices, sometimes on a pastoral subject.
The Ensemble Madrigal (Moscow) is an early music group. It was formed in 1965 by the Russian composer and harpsichord player Andrey Volkonsky to perform Russian and Western sacred music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque eras.