Madrigal (Trecento)

The Trecento Madrigal is an Italian musical form of the 14th century ( approximately 1300-1370 ), usually two, rarely three-part, unaccompanied vocal compositions in a simple manner, in which the upper voice is the main voice. Through its simple design and primitive rhythms and secular texts the Trecento Madrigal was not necessarily as a noble form, Francesco da Barberino designated 1300 the madrigal as " rough and disorderly singing together ."

At the end of the 14th and in the 15th century became the name for musical purposes other than for use as the madrigals now were reflected more in literary form (see Madrigal ). The literary works of Petrarch in particular served from 1530 again as texts for the new, musically unrelated to the Trecento madrigal form of the madrigal.

Important representatives are Jacopo da Bologna, Giovanni da Cascia, Maestro Piero, Lorenzo da Firenze and Francesco Landini.

• Music of the Middle Ages
• Music ( Italy)