his techniques of word-painting, textural contrast, and chromaticism to an English idiom. As an example, when Nicholas Yonge published his Musica transalpina in 1588 in England, the first collection of Italian madrigals to be published there, Marenzio had the second-largest number of madrigals in the collection (after Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder); and the second collection of Italian madrigals published in England had more works by Marenzio than anyone else. Some English composers who admired Marenzio's expressiveness and learned from him, gradually developing their own style from that seed, included Thomas Morley, John Wilbye, and Thomas Weelkes. Outside of England, Marenzio's madrigals also influenced composers as widely distributed as Hans Leo Hassler in South Germany and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck in the Low Countries. In 1622 Henry Peacham wrote, "for delicious aires and sweet invention in madrigals, Luca Marenzio excelleth all others." This quote by Peacham illustrates the effect Luca Marenzio had on later development of the madrigal, and the admiration he elicited from other composers from that period. Even in the mid-seventeenth century, Italian and English commentators continued to extol the virtues of Marenzio's compositions; his music appeared in arrangements for viols late in the century; and his music has continued to be sung almost without interruption to the present day by madrigal groups – one of very few Renaissance composers for whom that is true. Notes References Arnold, Denis and Tim Carter. "Marenzio, Luca." In The Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Alison Latham. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/opr/t114/e4218 (accessed December 25, 2008). Alfred Einstein, The Italian Madrigal. Three volumes. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1949. Bizzarini, Marco, Luca Marenzio: The Career of a Musician Between the Renaissance and the Counter-Reformation. Translated by James Chater. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003. James Chater, Luca Marenzio and the Italian Madrigal, 1577–1593. Two volumes. Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press, 1981. Steven Ledbetter, James Chater, Roland Jackson: "Marenzio, Luca." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/40081 (accessed January 4, 2009). Steven Ledbetter, Roland Jackson: "Luca Marenzio", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. Further reading External links The Italian Madrigal Resource Center. https://italianmadrigal.com Listen to free recordings of songs from Umeå Akademiska Kör. Article on Marenzio at Early Music World 1550s births 1599 deaths Musicians from the Province of Brescia