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Philippe Verdelot - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Philippe Verdelot was a French composer of the Renaissance, who spent most of his life in Italy. |
 | | Verdelot, along with Costanzo Festa, is considered to be the father of the madrigal, an a cappella vocal form which emerged around 1530 from a convergence of several previous musical streams (including the frottola, the canzone, the laude, and also including some influence from the more serious style of the motet). |
 | | Verdelot's style balances homophonic with imitative textures, rarely using word-painting, which was largely a later development (though a few interesting foreshadowings can be found). |
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