Wilson, Blake McDowell

Wilson, Blake. Lauda. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001., The principal genre of non-liturgical religious song in Italy during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. In its monophonic form,...

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Wilson, Blake McDowell

In Florence around 1475, the manner preferred by the city’s literati for performing Tuscan poetry would have been solo, improvisatory song. By 1525, the polyphonic madrigal had become the pre-eminent vehicle. This is a striking...

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