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In the madrigal's later stages of development its uppermost voice was often highly elaborate, with the lower voice, the tenor, much less so.
The text of the madrigal is divided into three sections: two strophes called terzetti set to the same music and a concluding section called the ritornello usually in a different meter.
The later 16th century madrigal is unrelated, although it often used texts written in the 14th century (for instance by Petrarch).
A madrigal is a setting for 4-6 voices of a secular text, often in Italian.
The madrigal has its origins in the frottola and has been influenced by the motet and the French chanson of the renaissance.
Especially in England the madrigal was highly appreciated since the publication of Nicholas Yonge's Musica Transalpina in 1588, a collection of Italian madrigals with translated texts and started a madrigal-culture of its own.
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