@article{ART002805405},
author={Park, Jeongsook},
title={Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590)},
journal={Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology},
year={2021},
volume={29},
number={2},
pages={117-158},
doi={10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.004}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park, Jeongsook
TI - Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590)
JO - Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology
PY - 2021
VL - 29
IS - 2
PB - The Korean Society for Musicology
SP - 117
EP - 158
AB - Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590), an Italian singer and lutenist of the Cinquecento is the first female composer who published her own compositions for the first time in the history of western music. This study investigates Casulana’s four voices Italian madrigals that have been transmitted until today.
Madrigal is secular vocal music for small group and the number of voices varies from one to several people. It is a musical genre that men and women sing together for aristocratic gatherings or academy. Early madrigals were compositions for enjoyment of singing performance rather than appreciation. In the late sixteenth century, madrigals exhibit more complex melodies and complicated styles primarily for professional singing. Casulana published her first madrigal collection in 1568 and the second in 1570, which showed various compositional techniques of the mid sixteenth century madrigals without complexity of the later period.
Like other madrigals, main themes of Casulana’s madrigals are love and death. The relationship between love and death through desire or dearly wish has implicative and symbolic meanings for which Casulana uses important poetic words through word-painting techniques that expressed in a diverse way. Most of Casulana madrigals have four voices setting and show uncomplicated counterpoint with homophonic sonority. Her madrigals are characterized by syllabic settings, main melody on the top voice, and bass line that plays a role in harmonic basis. A variety of her madrigal style includes melody that reflects poetic structure and accent, flexible rhythm for declamatory, and dialogue. Her poetic acumen redounds to musical sophistication and refined expression.
KW - Maddalena Casulana (c.1544~c.1590);Woman Composer;Madrigal;Chordal Music;Cinquecento;Word-Painting
DO - 10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.004
ER -
Park, Jeongsook. (2021). Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590). Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 29(2), 117-158.
Park, Jeongsook. 2021, "Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590)", Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, vol.29, no.2 pp.117-158. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.004
Park, Jeongsook "Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590)" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 29.2 pp.117-158 (2021) : 117.
Park, Jeongsook. Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590). 2021; 29(2), 117-158. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.004
Park, Jeongsook. "Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590)" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 29, no.2 (2021) : 117-158.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.004
Park, Jeongsook. Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590). Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology, 29(2), 117-158. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.004
Park, Jeongsook. Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590). Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology. 2021; 29(2) 117-158. doi: 10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.004
Park, Jeongsook. Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590). 2021; 29(2), 117-158. Available from: doi:10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.004
Park, Jeongsook. "Love and Mortality in a Woman Composer’s Voice: Study on the Cinquecento Madrigals of Maddalena Casulana (c.1544-c.1590)" Journal of the Korean Society for Musicology 29, no.2 (2021) : 117-158.doi: 10.34303/mscol.2021.29.2.004
