Category:Madrigals
A list of all pages categorized as madrigals on CPDL.
A madrigal is a type of secular vocal music composition, written during the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Throughout most of its history it was polyphonic and unaccompanied by instruments, with the number of voices varying from two to eight, but most frequently three to six. The earliest examples of the genre date from Italy in the 1520s, and while the center of madrigal production remained in Italy, madrigals were also written in England and Germany, especially late in the 16th and early in the 17th centuries. Unlike many other strophic forms of the time, most madrigals are through-composed, with music being written to best express the sentiment of each line of a poetic text. 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. The madrigal is related mostly by name alone to the Italian trecento madrigal of the late 13th and 14th centuries.
The madrigal was the most important secular form of music of its time. It reached its fullest development in the second half of the 16th century, losing its importance in the early 17th century, when forms such as the solo song became more popular. After the 1630s it merged with the cantata and the dialogue, and the solo madrigal was replaced by the aria due to the rise of opera as an important genre.
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The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 7,078 total.
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- Wherefore sit I complaining? (Peter Philips)
- Whilst youthful sports (Joseph Barnby)
- Whilst youthful sports (Thomas Weelkes)
- White as lilies was her face (John Dowland)
- Whither away so fast (Thomas Morley)
- Whither so fast (Thomas Bateson)
- Who loves a life (John Mundy)
- Who loves this life (Richard Allison)
- Who prostrate lies (Thomas Bateson)
- Whoso list to hunt (Paolo Zoccarato)
- Whoso that will himself apply (Rysbye)
- Why do the roses (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
- Why do you seek by flight? (Michael East)
- Why dost thou shoot? (John Wilbye)
- Why runs away my love? (Michael East)
- Why should I grieve? (Francis Pilkington)
- Why should I love? (George Kirbye)
- Why should the cuckoo's tuneful note (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
- Why sit I here, alas, complaining (Thomas Morley)
- Why smilest thou, sweet jewel? (Michael East)
- Why wail we thus? (George Kirbye)
- Why weeps alas (Thomas Morley)
- Why weeps, alas! my lady-love (Robert Lucas Pearsall)
- Wie dasz liebliche Licht (Gemignano Capilupi)
- Wie habt ihr Jungfrau (Orazio Vecchi)
- Wiewohl ich arm und elend bin (Melchior Franck)
- Wiewol sich vil (Jacob Regnart)
- Wilhelmus von Nassaue (Melchior Franck)
- Will saide to his mammy (Robert Jones)
- Will ye love me (Thomas Ravenscroft)
- Wilt thou unkind now leave me weeping (Robert Ramsey)
- Winter Daydreams, Op. 60a (Louie Madrid Calleja)
- Der Winter kalt (Johannes Eccard)
- Wir armen Kartäuser (Johann Steffens)
- With Angel's face and brightness (Daniel Norcome)
- Witness, ye heavens (Giles Farnaby)
- Witness, ye heavens, the palace (John Mundy)
- Wiwallij Dröm (Knut Håkanson)
- Wo sind die Stunden der süßen Zeit? (Christoph Dalitz)
- Wo soll ich mich hinkehren (Melchior Franck)
- Woe am I, my heart dies (George Kirbye)
- Woeful heart with grief oppressed (John Dowland)
- Wohl kommt der Mai (Leonhard Lechner)
- Wohl kommt der Mai (Orlando di Lasso)
- Wohlauf, Ihr Gäste (Erasmus Widmann)
Y
- Ye little birds (Kellow John Pye)
- Ye restless thoughts (John Bennet)
- Ye restless thoughts (John Wilbye)
- Ye sacred muses (William Byrd)
- Ye that do live in pleasures (John Wilbye)
- Yet if that age (Orlando Gibbons)
- Yet stay alway (Thomas Bateson)
- Yet, sweet, take heed (John Wilbye)
- You black bright stars (Thomas Morley)
- You lovers that have loves astray (John Hilton the younger)
- You pretty flowers (John Farmer)
- You that wont to my pipes sound (Lirum lirum) (Thomas Morley)
- Young Cupid hath proclaim'd (Thomas Weelkes)
- Your beauty it allureth (Thomas Weelkes)
- Your shining eyes (Thomas Bateson)
Z
- Zanni et Magnifico (Johannes Eccard)
- Zanzaretta tal'hor a me d'intorno (Domenico Micheli)
- Zartes Jungfräulein reine (Giovanni Gastoldi)
- Zeffiro torna e l'aura mia gentile (Bernardino Mosto)
- Zefiro torna (Alfonso Ferrabosco I)
- Zefiro torna (Bernado Giacomini)
- Zefiro torna (Jan Tollius)
- Zefiro torna (Luca Marenzio)
- Zefiro torna e di soavi accenti (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Zefiro torna e il bel tempo rimena (Claudio Monteverdi)
- Zefiro torna e il bel tempo rimena (Girolamo Conversi)
- Zephiro torna, e'l bel tempo rimena (Philippe de Monte)
- Zephyrus brings the time (Michael Cavendish)
- Zu aller Stund (Melchior Franck)