Frottola (music)

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In Italian Renaissance music, Frottola (Italian) is a simple, four-part song form from around 1430 to 1530. This song style was developed at the courts of Mantua and Ferrara . The popular song containing ballad-like elements is derived from the Italian "frotta" (swarm) and denotes a conglomerate of arbitrary thoughts. As a compositional term, it has been used for a wide variety of works.

Many frottoles came from singer-lutenists, such as Marchetto Cara and Bartolomeo Tromboncino , but the popular style was imitated by many other composers, including Josquin Desprez . The further development of the frottola is the madrigal , which was created around 1530 .

literature

Florian Mehltretter: The frottola as an innovation of 'poesia per musica' . In: Romance Studies , 3, 2016, romanischestudien.de
Frauke Schmitz-Gropengießer: Frottola. In: Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht , Albrecht Riethmüller , Editor Markus Bandur: Concise dictionary of musical terminology . Volume 3. Steiner, Stuttgart 1996 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ Konrad Ragossnig : Handbook of the guitar and lute. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-2329-9 , p. 109.

[1] Konrad Ragossnig : Handbook of the guitar and lute. Schott, Mainz 1978, ISBN 3-7957-2329-9 , p. 109.