CANZONET OR MADRIGAL?
Sir,-Despite its being only "semi-well-informed" and sounding like a "corset advertisement" to your November 23 tadio viewsreel commentator, I still stick to the statement in my script on Elizabethan music to which he (or she) took exception-"To. modern ears the Canzonet sounds much the same as a Madrigal but it seems the Elizabethans made a fine distinction of which we can now be but dimly aware." This is the opinion of Dr, E. H. Fellowes, the great authority on Elizabethan music. On pages 54 and 55 of his book The English Madrigal Composers he says, "They were quite consistent in applying a large number of terms besides Madrigal to their published works;" that "the form of the Canzonet was shaped upon no fixed rule." And that, for instance, in 598, Farmer and Farnaby each published sets of very similar compositions, the fotmer calling his "Canzonets" and the latter "Madrigals." On page 60, Dr. Fellowes further confounds your commentator by stating that "many Canzonets are indistinguishable from Madrigals . + + which form is ‘itself indefinite." I thank you for thus briefly turning the spotlight on to Elizabethan music which is something of a hobby of mine. I commend it’ to all music-lovers in general-and to your radio viewsreel commentator in particular.
W. ROY
HILL
(Wadestown)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 337, 7 December 1945, Page 5
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215CANZONET OR MADRIGAL? New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 337, 7 December 1945, Page 5
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