Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Madrigal

A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition composed of the Renaissance or early Baroque. The number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six. In the madrigal, the composer attempted to express the emotion contained in each line (and sometimes individual words) of a celebrated poem.

The Genesis song 'Entangled' from the album 'A Trick Of The Tail ' (1976) contains the line: 'Madrigal music is playing, voices can faintly be heard'.