Meaning & use
Frottola
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A type of light, strophic secular song popular in Italy during the late 15th and early 16th centuries, typically set for several voices with simple, repetitive rhythms.
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The ensemble performed a frottola accompanied by lute, evoking the sound of a Renaissance Italian court.
Musicologists consider the frottola an important forerunner of the later Italian madrigal.
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The frottola eventually evolved into the more musically sophisticated madrigal by the mid-16th century, as composers sought greater emotional expression.
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