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A setting for many voices of a secular text, often in Italian, dealing with themes of love. Composers of late [[Renaissance music]] and early [[Baroque music]] were particularly ingenious with "madrigalisms" -- passages in which the music assigned to a particular word expresses its meaning, for example, setting "riso" (smile) to a passage of quick, running notes which imitate laughter, or "sospiro" (sigh) to a note which falls to the note below. A second school of madrigal writing, highly influenced by the first, flourished slightly later in England.
Madrigals were generally sung in the Middle Ages.

'''Composers of Italian madrigals'''
* [[Jacques Arcadelt]]
* [[Loyset Compere]]
* [[Orlandus Lassus]]
* [[Claudio Monteverdi]]
* [[Heinrich Schutz|Heinrich Schütz]]
* [[Adrian Willaert]]


'''Composers of English madrigals'''
* [[Orlando Gibbons]]
* [[Thomas Morley]]
* [[Thomas Weelkes]]
* [[Bob Dylan]]