madrigal
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A madrigal is a type of vocal music that was popular during the Renaissance, as shown in this famous painting where a musician is reading madrigal compositions. Madrigals were important to musical history as a significant form of secular music performed during that era.
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- History
- Origins and early madrigals
- Mid-16th century
- 1550s–1570s
- Turn of the century
- Transition to the concertato madrigal
- Transition from the concertato madrigal
- English madrigal school
- Continental Europe
- Madrigalists
- Trecento madrigal
- Early composers
- Late Renaissance composers
- At the Baroque threshold
- Baroque madrigalists
- Italy
- Germany
- English madrigal school
- English composers of the classical period
- 19th-century composers
- 20th-century composers
- Contemporary
- Musical examples
- References
- Notes
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.5|The Lute Player (Caravaggio)|The Lute Player () by Caravaggio. The lutenist reads madrigal music by the composer [[Jacques Arcadelt. (Hermitage, Saint Petersburg)]]
A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1580–1650) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number of voices varies from two to eight, but the form usually features three to six voices, whilst the metre of the madrigal varies between two or three tercets, followed by one or two couplets. Unlike verse-repeating strophic forms sung to the same music, most madrigals are through-composed, featuring different music for each stanza of lyrics, whereby the composer expresses the emotions contained in each line and in single words of the poem being sung.