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(Fe-lep’ Vâr-da-lo’) c. 1480s–1530s French composer Although French by birth and the composer of chansons and motets, Verdelot travelled to Italy early in his life, and is best known as one of the founders of the madrigal. He seems to have composed most, if not all, his madrigals in the 1520s, the genre’s first decade. Many of ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas. Recommended Recording: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas, Audivi vocem de caelo, The Sixteen (dir) Harry Christophers (Hyperion) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Philippe Verdelot | Renaissance | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

first madrigals appeared in manuscript form during the 1520s and in print a decade later. The greatest cont­ributions of that time were by three Franco-Flemish musicians who worked in Italy – Verdelot, Willaert and Arcadelt. In the mid-century madrigals of Rore, a more vividly expressive style developed: he used smaller note values to create a rapid parlando (It. ‘speaking’) effect ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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