Madrigals: Music for Fun

Pietro bembo

Pietro bembo

________ admired petrarch's combination of playfulness and seriousness, as well as his ability to match the sound qualities of his verses to their meanings.

Luzzaschi

________ became a master at improvising on vincentino's chromatic- enharmonic keyboards and greatly influenced gesualdo.

Morley

________ (earliest and most prolific english madrigal composer) wrote balletts, canzonets and madrigals.

Madrigalists

________ aimed to match the seriousness of playfulness of the poetry with the elegance or wit of their music in order to communicate the ideas and emotions of the poem.

Villancico

________ was the most important form of secular polyphonic song in renaissance spain.

devices madrigalisms

Uses word painting ________ to evoke the meaning of individual words or phrases with a music image.

textthe rise

Madrigal brought to a peal their interests in humanism, the individual, and realizing in music the accents, images and emotions of the ________ of national styles: italy and spain.

Janequin

________ turned sound effects into descriptive four- voice chansons using onomatopoeic syllables.

Frottole

________ were highbrow versions of street music.

Lute accompaniment

________ has a degree of independence.

Villanella

________ was a lively homophonic strophic piece that flourished in the neapolitan area and sometimes mimicked the madrigal.

Vincentino

________ explored chromatic passages in all of his madrigals, published l'antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica, designed a specially constructed harpsichord and organ that could handle quarter tones.