MUS 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Giaches De Wert, Philippe De Monte, Claudin De Sermisy
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Chapters 11 & 12 - secular & instrumental. Secular song in the 16th century: the italian madrigal. Madrigal and secular song in the 16th century. Music printing fostered the creation and dissemination of music for amateurs to sing for their own pleasure. Music was usually in the vernacular, further encouraging the growth of national styles. Spanish villancico, italian frottola, & a new kind of french chanson all simple, strophic, mostly syllabic and homophonic, easily singable, and thus ideally suited for amateur performers. Through madrigal, italy and italian composers became the leading forces in european music for the first time, a roles they would maintain for the next 2 centuries. Music served as a kind of social glue, an activity friends and family could join in together. Spain the villancico villancico type of polyphonic song in spanish, with several stanzas framed by a refrain; originally secular, the form was later used for sacred works, especially associated with.
