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Definitions of madrigal in various dictionaries:
noun - an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices
verb - sing madrigals
An unaccompanied vocal composition for two or three voices in simple harmony, following a strict poetic form, developed in Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
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| The name of this musical form probably came from the Latin "matricale", meaning in the mother tongue |
| The name of this musical form for 2 or more voices may come from "matricalis", Latin for "of the mother" |
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| a part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically unaccompanied and arranged in elaborate counterpoint. |
| a song, developed in Italy in the 14th century, that is performed without musical instruments and in which several singers sing different notes at the same time |
| an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices follows a strict poetic form |
| sing madrigals |
| A song for two or three unaccompanied voices, developed in Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. |
| A short poem, often about love, suitable for being set to music. |
| A polyphonic song using a vernacular text and written for four to six voices, developed in Italy in the 16th century and popular in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries. |
| A part song. |
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A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition 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. It is quite distinct from the Italian Trecento madrigal of the late 13th and 14th centuries, with which it shares only the name.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 celebrated poem. * The madrigal originated in part from the frottola, in part from the resurgence in interest in vernacular Italian poetry, and also from the influence of the French chanson and polyphonic style of the motet as written by the Franco-Flemish composers who had naturalized in Italy during the period. A frottola generally would consist of music set to stanzas of text, while ma |