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’an absolute joy’ - Music and Musicians Hi-Fi News and Record Review Record of the Month The sixteenth-century madrigal was an Italian form. The term -madrigal- was loosely applied to a wide variety of music， but generally denoted a polyphonic setting for four or more voices of an amorous or pastoral text which was closely depicted in the music. Thomas Morely transplanted the form into England in the 1590s; this marked the beginning of the brief but brilliant flowering of the English madrigal. Between the 1590s and the early 1620s， twenty composers published a total of 36 books of madrigals， after which the form virtually disappeared. Some of these composers， such as Morely and Weelkes， followed the Italian model closely; others， such as Byrd and Gibbons， mostly stayed with the simpler English form of the consort song， where the tune remains in one voice， word-painting is not used， and strophic form is preferred to the continuous structure of the madrigal proper. Among the twenty-one items selected for this recording there are examples of several types of piece，! ranging from true Italianate madrigals such as Too much I once lamented， via more popular -balletts- such as Fyer， fyer!， to the simple part-songs like A little pretty bonny lass. The variety， imagination， and inspired blending of poetry and music characteristic of the best of the -English Madrigal School- afford a particular kind of delight in performance， shared equally by singer and listener