Madrigal
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A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, an
The Lute Player (c. 1600) by Caravaggio. The lutenist reads madrigal music by the composer Jacques Arcadelt. (Hermitage, Saint Petersburg)
As a writer, Cardinal Pietro Bembo advocated using vernacular Italian (Tuscan dialect) for poetry and literature, which facilitated composers' creating lyrical styles for the madrigal musical form in 16th-century Italy. (Titian)
In the last twenty years of the 16th century, the madrigalist Luca Marenzio (1553–1599) was an influential composer until Monteverdi's Baroque-era transformation of the madrigal as a musical form.
The commemorative statue of the singer and publisher Nicholas Yonge (1560–1619), who introduced madrigals to England.
Cantata
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A cantata is a vocal composition with instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements.
Madrigal
…musical styles of the original madrigals from Italy. By the mid-16th century, Italian composers began merging the madrigal into the composition of the cantata and the dialogue; and by the early 17th century, the aria replaced the madrigal in opera. The madrigal is a musical composition that emerged from the…
Soloquartet and strings