madrigal choir

Madrigals is a year-long auditioned choir consisting of 32 8th and 9th grade students. There are an equal number of Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, and Basses. They are a hard-working group of students who are committed to further development of their musical skills.

The Madrigal: A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a part song, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, madrigals are unaccompanied using two to eight voices and often polyphonic in texture. They were sung by small groups of singers with only one person per part.

1. : a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form. 2. a. : a complex polyphonic unaccompanied vocal piece on a secular text developed especially in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Since its invention, the madrigal had two roles: (i) a private entertainment for small groups of skilled, amateur singers and musicians; and (ii) a supplement to ceremonial performances of music for the public.

madrigal, form of vocal chamber music that originated in northern Italy during the 14th century, declined and all but disappeared in the 15th, flourished anew in the 16th, and ultimately achieved international status in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Students earn a spot in the Madrigal Choir through a competitive audition process. Students must be concurrently enrolled in a concert choir.

The ensemble performs a wide repertoire of various styles and forms: renaissance music, classical music, Filipino and international folksongs, contemporary and avant-garde music, opera, and even popular music.

The origin of the term madrigal is uncertain, but it probably comes from the Latin matricale (meaning “in the mother tongue”; i.e., Italian, not Latin). The 14th-century madrigal is based on a relatively constant poetic form of two or three stanzas of three lines each, with 7 or 11 syllables per line.

Madrigal was a form of non-religious (secular) Renaissance vocal music for two or more singers, which reached the peak of its popularity in the 16th century.

The University of the Philippines Madrigal Singers was organized in 1963 by National Artist Professor Andrea O. Veneracion. The group is composed of students, faculty and alumni from the different colleges of the University of the Philippines (UP).

northern Italy madrigal, form of vocal chamber music that originated in northern Italy during the 14th century, declined and all but disappeared in the 15th, flourished anew in the 16th, and ultimately achieved international status in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Word painting, emotive text setting, and many meanings are typical characteristics of madrigals. Unaccompanied secular vocal composition with three, four, or more parts. The Renaissance madrigal is known for its strong use of musical pictorialization of words as an expressive tool.