1558 Baroque madrigalists The a capella old-style madrigal for four or five voices continued in parallel with the new concertato style of madrigal, but the compositional watershed of the seconda prattica provided an autonomous basso continuo line, presented in the Fifth Book of Madrigals (1605), by Claudio Monteverdi. Italy Agostino Agazzari – I Libro a 5, 1600 Adriano Banchieri Giulio Caccini Antonio Cifra – I Libro a 5, 1605 Sigismondo d'India Marco da Gagliano – I Libro a 5, 1602 Alessandro Grandi Marco Marazzoli Domenico Mazzocchi – Madrigali a 5, 1638 Claudio Monteverdi Giovanni Priuli – I Libro, 1604 Paolo Quagliati – I Libro a 4, 1608 Michelangelo Rossi Salamone Rossi – I Libro a 5, 1600. His Secondo Libro, 1602, is the first example of madrigals published with continuo. Claudio Saracini Barbara Strozzi – I Libro a 2-5vv with bc, 1644 Orazio Vecchi – I Libro a 6, 1583 Germany Hans Leo Hassler – I Libro, 1600 Johann Hermann Schein Heinrich Schütz – I Libro a 5, Venice 1611. English madrigal school Thomas Bateson William Byrd John Dowland John Farmer Orlando Gibbons Thomas Morley Thomas Tomkins Thomas Weelkes John Wilbye Some 60 madrigals of the English School are published in The Oxford Book of English Madrigals English composers of the classical period Samuel Wesley Thomas Attwood Walmisley Joseph Barnby John Wall Callcott 19th-century composers Robert Lucas de Pearsall Vincent d'Indy 20th-century composers Paul Hindemith Constant Lambert Bohuslav Martinů Contemporary Gavin Bryars George Crumb Emma Lou Diemer Mauricio Kagel Morten Lauridsen György Ligeti Paul Mealor Moondog Henri Pousseur Ned Rorem Clive Strutt Musical examples Stage 1 Madrigal: Arcadelt, Ahime, dov'e bel viso, 1538 Stage 2 Madrigal (prima practica): Willaert, Aspro core e selvaggio, mid-1540s Stage 3 Madrigal (seconda practica): Gesualdo, Io parto e non piu dissi, 1590–1611 Stage 4 Madrigal: Caccini, Perfidissimo volto, 1602 Stage 5 Madrigal: Monteverdi, Il Combatimento di Tancredi et Clorinda, 1624 English Madrigal: Weelkes, O Care, thou wilt despatch me, late 16th century/early 17th century Nineteenth-century imitation of an English Madrigal: "Brightly dawns our wedding day" from the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, The Mikado (1885) References Notes Sources Further reading Iain Fenlon and James Haar: The Italian Madrigal in the Early 16th Century: Sources and Interpretation. Cambridge, 1988 Oliphant, Thomas, ed. (1837) La musa madrigalesca, or, A collection of madrigals, ballets, roundelays etc.: chiefly of the Elizabethan age; with remarks and annotations. London: Calkin and