Mogens Pedersøns madrigaler og madrigaletter. En dansk ... - dym.dk

34 Kitti MessinaSummaryMogens Pedersøn, a composer of remarkable talent at the Court of King ChristianIV, visited Italy twice, specifically Venice, to learn the traditional compositionaltechnique of polyphonic madrigals from Giovanni Gabrieli. He publishedone book containing 21 five-voice madrigals, and presumably another book ofwhich only ten five-voice madrigals have survived in the English manuscript,London, British Library Egerton 3665 (the so-called “Tregian manuscript”). Healso composed two small three-voice madrigaletti. The comparison of some of hissecular vocal compositions with music settings of the same poetical texts by otherItalian composers (particularly Amante Franzoni and Francesco Di Gregorii)shows that Pedersøn knew and chose some ‘lighter’ genres (three-voice strophicsongs, in some cases with instrumental accompaniment) as models for his fivevoiceand three-voice madrigals.