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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: English madrigals, Madrigal composers, Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Heinrich Schutz, Carlo Gesualdo, Orlande de Lassus, Giaches de Wert, Jacques Arcadelt, Luca Marenzio, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore, Costanzo Festa, Benedetto Pallavicino, Francesco Portinaro, Orlando Gibbons, Jacquet de Berchem, Francesco Corteccia, Philippe de Monte, Thomas Morley, Domenico Ferrabosco, Giacomo Fogliano, Giovanni Priuli, Simon Boyleau, Perissone Cambio, Robert Lucas de Pearsall, English Madrigal School, Gioseppe Caimo, Philippe Verdelot, Giulio Fiesco, Bernardo Pisano, Antonino Barges, Pietro Taglia, Hoste da Reggio, Ippolito Chamatero, Sebastiano Festa, Girolamo Conversi, Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, Sigismondo d'India, Giovanni Ferretti, Francesco Rovigo, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Hubert Naich, Madrigal dinner, Maistre Jhan, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Nicolao Dorati, The Triumphs of Oriana, Stefano Venturi del Nibbio, Jhan Gero, Scipione Lacorcia, Ippolito Ciera, Giandomenico Martoretta, Oxford Book of English Madrigals, Madrigale spirituale, Madrigal comedy, John Farmer, Alessandro Orologio, Camillo Cortellini, Claudio Veggio, Fair Phyllis, The Silver Swan, Now Is the Month of Maying, Note nere, Achille Falcone, My bonny lass she smileth, April is in my mistress' face, John Holmes, Johann Grabbe. Excerpt: A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six. Madrigals originated in Italy during the 1520s. Unlike many strophic forms of the time, most madrigals were through-composed. In the madrigal, the composer attempted to express the emotion contained in each line, and sometimes individual words, of a celebr...
