University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1-1930 The madrigal. Frank B. Martin University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Martin, Frank B., "The madrigal." (1930). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 910. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/910 This Master's Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 'I UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE THE MADRIGAL. A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty Of the Graduate School Of the University of Louisville In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Of Master of Arts Department of English By FRANK B. lVlARTIN 1930 CONTENTS Chapter-. Pages. I The Foreign Madrigal 1 - 9. Ii II The English Madrigal 10 - 21. "i'" III The Etymology and structure 22 - 27. IV The Lyrics 28 - 41. V Composers 42 - 59. VI Recent Tendencies 60 - 64. Conclusions 65 - 67. .. Example of a-Madrigal 68 - 76. ~ Bibliography 77 - 79. .~ • • • THE FORKEGN MADR IGAL • • , CHAPTER I · . THE FOREIGN MADRIGAL The madrigal is the oldest of concerted • secular forms. It had its origin in northern Ita17, perhaps as early as the twelfth century. The early ..."i;'" compositions had none of the elaborate devices which characterize the madrigals of the sixteenth century.