It is a poetic expression of great intensity, although delicate and with an idyllic love tonic, it is a combination of free verses with no limits in them, from 7 to 11 syllables per stanza, they are short of harmonious and simple combination and can be sung being brief.
It is said that it was born at the time of the Renaissance, its form and origin being Italy, achieving greater fame both in the literary field in poems and in music, among which Dante, Petrarca, Tasso and others, through its transformation to the musical where musical authors such as Luca Marenzio who gave life with his chords, which earned the qualification of Divine for his exquisite compositions.
In other words, Madrigal poetry has been defined as an important part of music sung to various voices, with a variety of textures of intense expressiveness, where music and written text come together to arrive at a representation of the characters, love, the moon or the stars, between high notes, the bass in stronger feelings of the painful losses of life such as death, using pauses to identify the distances and happier sounds for happiness.
Madrigal poetry is a complete accompaniment of feelings expressed between the music, which grow crescendo between the pauses and the sudden silences, giving rise to a path serving as a model for the next generation of composers of the time that spread throughout Europe.
Being a creation of authentic emotional character where the protagonist is sincere love with a bucolic tone, where each verse shows the experiences of the author, without any exact number of verses, that is, where the words can be joined in only one delicate stanza.
Although it is a clean and beautiful style, the madrigal went through its decline time as other forms of artistic expression such as declamation and soloistic entered the scene, being later replaced by the more religious genre cantata with an orchestra sung in choirs, which it began to happen in the year 1650.
