In general Newman feels that Rossi's madrigals are in an earlier style of composers such as Luca Marenzio. |
His secular vocal music, monodic and polyphonic, is mainly contained in five volumes of Musiche, and ten volumes of madrigals and villanellas. |
I bought this record on the back of their wonderful Madra, which was unaccompanied madrigals and other such stuff. |
She asserts that the music from this period demands a style of singing not unlike that of the Renaissance madrigals. |
The madrigals of the baroque period were not written for professionals, and neither were Haydn's string quartets. |
And the ricercars, though performed instrumentally here, were actually printed at the end of a volume of madrigals. |