Famous Composers
Two early Madrigal composers from France are …?
Philippe Verdelot & Jaques Acradelt
A music style from the 16th century written for a solo voice with accompaniment is ____? …
A Lute Song
Madrigals were the most important secular genre in what country?
Italy
What became the most important form of polyphonic secular song in Renaissance Spain?
Villancico
Madrigals led to the dominance of Italian music throughout which era?
Baroque Era
What composer was infamous for his rareness but also murdering his wife? …
Carlo Gesualdo
The most important secular genre of 16th century Italy is ___? …
Madrigal
The new accidentals that changed the diatonic scale were ...?
Sharps and flats
What was the frottola?
An Italian counterpart to the villancico
The importance of the Madrigal's text and it’s dramatic arts spread to…
Instrumental and Vocal Music
How many voices was Giacomo Gastoldi’s balletti known for? …
Five Voices
What is a common poetic and musical form that became the most important form of secular polyphonic song? …
Villancico
Madrigal composers explored new effects of imagery, dramatization, ____________, characterization, and _____________.
Expressivity and declamation
The English genre for voice that was accompanied by a string ensemble was called ...?
Consort song
Madrigals were laboratories for exploring the __________, _________, and ________
of words.
(declamation, expression, and depiction)
What was Clèment Janequin’s chansons known for? …
They were known to be descriptive, and feature sounds of imitation.
What is a four part strophic song that is set homophonically and syllabically? …
Frottola
How many voices were mid-century madrigals written in?
five or more
The Meistersinger preserved a tradition of ____________ ____ ____ in Germany.
Unaccompanied solo song
Even today madrigals still have an impact of influence, considering the fact that at the time they were a ____________ to expressing emotions and illustrations of text through music.
“preeminent laboratory”
What was one of the composers who used the style Musique Mesurèe to write their chansons? …
Claude Le Jeune or Jean-Antoine de Baïf
What genre of song for voice and accompaniment & and became the dominant type of vocal music at the time? …
Air de cour
Composers often used texts from major poets such as ... (name AT LEAST two)
Francesco Petrarca, Ludovico Arlosto, Torquato Tasso, and Glovanni Battlsta Guarini
The new French chanson developed during the reign of Francis I was considered …?
Light, fast, and strongly rhythmic for four voice parts
The devices that were used by 16th century Madrigal composers were then used by the composers of Ballets, Operas, and Film Scores to...
suggest a character's mood or manipulate the feelings of the audience