Jacques Arcadelt (also Jacob Arcadelt) (1504 or 1505 – October 14, 1568) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the middle to late Renaissance, principally of madrigals and chansons. Events 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill seven miles from Hastings, the forces In Music, the Franco-Flemish School refers somewhat imprecisely to the style of polyphonic Vocal music composition in Europe in the 15th Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 - 1600 A madrigal is a type of Secular vocal music composition written during the Renaissance and early Baroque eras A chanson ( French for " Song " from Latin cantio) is in general any lyric -driven French songs usually Polyphonic Most likely he was born in Liège, and he died in Paris. Liège (ljɛːʒ Older English: Luick, Walloon: Lidje, German: Lüttich; Latin: Leodium, Dutch Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city
Little is known about his early life, but he is known to have been in Rome by 1539, at which time he was made a member of the Julian Chapel. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Shortly thereafter he joined the Sistine Chapel, where he was appointed "magister puerorum" (director of the boys choir), and later was promoted to choirmaster. Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina is the best-known Chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in Vatican City. In the same year he published four of his total of six books of madrigals for four voices. Probably around 1553 he moved to France, where he spent the remainder of his life; his numerous chansons date from this and subsequent years. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. In 1557 he published a book of masses, dedicated to his employer, Charles de Guise, Cardinal of Lorraine (Arcadelt was maître de chapelle, i. e. choirmaster for him).
Arcadelt's style is refined, pure, melodious, and simple, and his music was immensely popular in Italy and France for more than a hundred years; his first book of madrigals was reprinted 58 times between c1538 and 1654, a spectacular print run for the time. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest An additional hint to his popularity is the frequency with which anonymous compositions were attributed to him. Likely his popularity was due to his gift for capturing the Italian spirit and marrying it with the technical perfection of the Franco-Flemish harmonic and polyphonic style; in addition he wrote catchy tunes which were easy to sing. In Music, polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent Melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice ( Monophony
His most famous madrigal is the delightful Il bianco e dolce cigno, which is notable for its clear phrasing, exquisite singability, and clever use of repetition. In music a phrase (Greek φράση sentence expression see also strophe is a section of music that is relatively self contained and coherent over a medium time scale The style represented in this madrigal was influential on the next generation of madrigal composers, including Palestrina. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (between 3 February 1525 and 2 February 1526 - 2 February 1594 was an Italian Composer of the Renaissance.
Arcadelt published a total of 24 motets, 3 books of masses, 126 French chansons, and over 200 madrigals. In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions For other uses see Mass (disambiguation The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that
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External links
- Jacques Arcadelt free scores in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Free scores by Jacques Arcadelt in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
References and further reading
- Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL is a Sheet music archive which focuses on choral and vocal Music in the Public domain. The Werner Icking Music Archive, often abbreviated WIMA, is a web archive of Public domain Sheet music. Gustave Reese ( November 29 1899, New York City – – September 7 1977, Berkeley California) was an American New York, W. W. Norton & Co. , 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4
- The Concise Edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th ed. Revised by Nicolas Slonimsky. New York, Schirmer Books, 1993. ISBN 0-02-872416-X
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