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• Personalities
• Classical
• Composer
• Renaissance

(Loo’-ka Ma-rents’yo) c. 1553–99 Italian composer Marenzio spent most of his adult life in Rome, in the service of various cardinals and other patrons. Although he composed Masses and motets, his fame rests on his madrigals. In the 1580s he developed the canzonetta style of madrigal, borrowing the clear textures and lively rhythms of the canzonetta but applying them ...

• Personalities
• Classical
• Composer
• Renaissance

and made an important contribution to the polyphonic psalm repertory. Recommended Recording: Le Printans, Huelgas Ensemble (dir) Paul Van Nevel (Sony) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Luca Marenzio | Renaissance | Classical ...

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• Renaissance

(Fer-ra-bos’-ko) Italian musical family This family produced four generations of musicians. Domenico (1513–74), of Bologna, was a composer of early madrigals in the style of Arcadelt. His son Alfonso (1543–88) moved to England as a young man and spent most of his life at the court of Elizabeth I. Morley praised him for his ‘deep skill’ and placed him alongside ...

• Performance
• Opera
• Roots of Opera

in the ancient world, with texts written by Bardi, Ottavio Rinuccini (1562–1621) and Laura Guidiccioni (fl. 1550). The music was composed largely by Cristofano Malvezzi (1547–99) and Luca Marenzio (1550–99), with contributions by others, including Peri, Caccini and Bardi. The individual scenes included: the Harmony of the Spheres (Intermedio 1); the contest in song between the Muses ...

• Styles & Forms
• Classical
• Renaissance

were created. The polyphonic madrigal culminated in the late sixteenth century in the works of composers who drew on both the lighter and the serious styles, notably Morley, Marenzio and, above all, Monteverdi. Intermedio The intermedio was an interlude presented between the acts of a play or other enter­tainment. At its simplest, it consisted of instrumental ...