Definition of Frottola. Meaning of Frottola. Synonyms of Frottola

- The frottola (pronounced [ˈfrɔttola]; plural frottole) was the predominant type of Italian po****r secular song of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth...
- composers in the 1520s partly originated from the three-to-four voice frottola (1470–1530); partly from composers' renewed interest in poetry written...
- composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most prolific composers of frottola after Marchetto Cara and Bartolomeo Tromboncino. Of his early life, almost...
- El Grillo (The Cricket) is a frottola by Josquin des Prez. Possibly written in the late 15th to early 16th century, it is regarded as one of Josquin's...
- possibly criminal life, much of his music is in the light current form of the frottola, a predecessor to the madrigal. He was a trombonist, as shown by his name...
- and along with Bartolomeo Tromboncino, was well known as a composer of frottolas. Very little is known of his early life. By 1494 he was already emplo****...
- Tromboncino and Marchetto Cara) which contributed to po****rizing the frottola. Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga founded an ecclesiastical chapel which emplo****...
- rising po****rity of more po****r, more homophonic vocal genres such as the frottola and the villanella. In these latter two genres, the increasing tendency...
- in Venice. He published two collections of lute music (containing 126 frottolas and 46 ricercares), printed by the Venetian printing house of Ottaviano...
- Barzelletta (lit. "jest") was a po****r verse form used by frottola composers in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is generally trochaic...