A madrigal is a song sung by several singers without any musical instruments. Madrigals were popular in England in the sixteenth century. a song for several singers without musical instruments, popular in the 16th century (madrigale, from matricalis , from matrix; MATRIX). Form of vocal chamber music, usually polyphonic and unaccompanied, of the 16th-17th centuries. It originated and developed in Italy, under the influence of the French chanson and the Italian frottola. Usually written for three to six voices, madrigals came to be sung widely as a social activity by cultivated amateurs, male and female. The texts were almost always about love; most prominent among the poets whose works were set to music are Petrarch, Torquato Tasso, and Battista Guarini. In Italy, Orlande de Lassus, Luca Marenzio, Don Carlo Gesualdo, and Claudio Monteverdi were among the greatest of the madrigalists; Thomas Morley, Thomas Weelkes, and John Wilbye created a distinguished body of English madrigals
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
an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form sing madrigals; "The group was madrigaling beautifully
secular song introduced in Italy that became popular in England as well Polyphonic in texture and expressive in mood, madrigals are written in the vernacular
(Italian): a piece of music from the Renaissance period, written for a least three voices, with overlapping melodies, usually without accompaniment
Polyphonic song for three or more voices, with verses set to the same music and a refrain set to different music
A kind of chamber vocal genre, popular in the renaissance Madrigals, usually for four, five, or six singers, a cappella, were secular pieces, usually pastoral in character
The secular counterpart of the motet An early form of music for several voices (generally unaccompanied) to a pastoral or amorous text A characteristic example is Thomas Morley's "Now is the Month of Maying "
a 16th-century secular piece for four or more voices which emphasized the meaning of words
secular choral work flourishing in the 16th and 17th centuries; later called part song
{i} polyphonic song sung without musical accompaniment by four to six singers (especially popular during the Renaissance); short love poem suitable for setting to music
Unaccompanied and usually sounding somewhat like a hymn The proper madrigal is complicated with contrapuntal elements and variation on the melody with each new verse The air(e) is less contrapuntal and has the same melody for each verse
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
an Italian short poem or part song suitable for singing by three or more voices, first appearing in England in the anthology Musica Transalpina There is no fixed rhyme scheme or line length For example, the anonymous "My Loue in her Attyre doth shew her witt
A type of secular, unaccompanied, vocal music for several voice parts Madrigals were first popular in 14th-century Italy, then revived in contrapuntal form in 16th-century England and Italy by writers such as William Byrd and Claudio Monteverdi
A popular type of music during the Renaissance It featured 4-6 voices singing independant lines
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
A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought
A vocal setting, polyphonic and unaccompanied for most of its history, of any of various kinds of verse from the early 1500's to the middle of the 17th century