Madrigal
（重定向自Madrigali）
![Pietro Bembo in a painting by Titian. Madrigals appeared in part due to Bembo's advocacy of the Italian language as a vehicle for poetic expression.](/Images/godic/202501/25/Pietro_Bembo_-_Titian4047.jpg")
![Luca Marenzio, a highly influential composer of madrigals in the last two decades of the 16th century](/Images/godic/202501/25/Luca_marenzio4047.jpg")
![Claudio Monteverdi in 1640 by Bernardo Strozzi. Monteverdi was the most influential composer of madrigals after 1600.](/Images/godic/202501/25/Claudio_Monteverdi4048.jpg")
A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six. It is quite distinct from the Italian Trecento madrigal of the late 13th and 14th centuries, with which it shares only the name.