madrigalist

While best known as a prolific composer of masses and motets, he was also an important madrigalist.

He was particularly prominent as a madrigalist, one of the few among the Venetians other than Monteverdi.

Giles Farnaby - a madrigalist of the Elizabethan age.

Weelkes was friends with the madrigalist Thomas Morley.

Pisano is arguably the first madrigalist.

Lewes is the birthplace of sixteenth century madrigalist Nicholas Yonge.

Answer: dodecaphonic lyrical singing with the attention to detail of a madrigalist, or of Anton Webern.

Even though the fame of his instrumental music has overshadowed much of his a cappella vocal output, Merulo was also a madrigalist.

Henry Youll (also Youell) was an English Madrigalist and Composer from Suffolk.

He was a competent madrigalist, well regarded by his peers, as well as a late representative of the musical style/ethos known as musica reservata.

Wert's early style was heavily influenced by Cipriano de Rore, the renowned mid-century madrigalist active at Ferrara.

Influences on Dragoni included his teacher Palestrina, especially early in his career, and later the renowned madrigalist Luca Marenzio.

While mostly famous as the solitary Italian madrigalist working in England, and the one mainly responsible for the growth of the madrigal there, he also composed much sacred music.

While in Milan, he made the acquaintance of the madrigalist Spirito l'Hoste da Reggio, a formative influence on his early musical style.

He once stated to a friend that if he were ever arrested and thus forced to state his profession, he would have to say it was that of being a madrigalist.

Around this time he probably made the acquaintance of John Wilbye, a much more famous madrigalist, who lived and worked only a few miles away, and whose style he sometimes approaches.

While Morris instilled an interest in counterpoint and music from past centuries, such as that of the madrigalist Thomas Morley, Hadley and Hopkins provided more practical tuition.

This most likely shows the influence of Francesco Corteccia, the famous musician and madrigalist to the Medici in Florence, who was consciously melding art and popular music styles.

And a 1664 work by the Neapolitan scholar Camillo Tutini lists him as a madrigalist in a section devoted to promoting the cultural claims of Naples against Rome.

Philipp de Monte (1521-1603) was the outstanding character: the last surviving great master of the parody-Mass, composer of more than three hundred motets, and the most prolific madrigalist of his day.

The madrigalist John Wilbye was employed by the Kitsons at Hengrave and in Colchester from around 1594 until his death in 1638, as was the composer Edward Johnson.

George Kirbye, an East Anglian madrigalist about whom little is known, was employed by Este to arrange some of the 1592 tunes, and it is probably his arrangement of Tye's work that appears in the psalter.

It is true that manuscript collections of madrigals had reached England earlier and that a minor conservative and non-dramatic madrigalist, Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, had been in Elizabeth I's service during the years 1562 to 1578.

Little is known about his early life except that he studied in Correggio with Tuttovale Menon, a famous madrigalist who also worked in the Ferrara court; he also studied with Girolamo Donato, an organist.

Whether in the intricate lines of the "Hodie nobis caelorum Rex" of the great Belgian madrigalist Philippe de Monte, or the more fluid, songful motion of Claudio Merulo's "Ave Maria," Ms. Basbas drew out sharply idiomatic singing.