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Hi S1042003, welcome to Wikipedia. I notice you are editing the page on the madrigal, presumably as part of your class assignment. I am the original article author. Please do not conflate the two types of madrigals; the 14th century composition was completely unrelated, as I indicated in the closing sentence of the first paragraph. Edits like this are confusing to the reader, since your statement implies it is the same genre. And why are you taking out the geographic distribution? The 16th century form originated in Italy, with secondary growth in England and Germany and a handful of other places. Thanks, Antandrus (talk) 04:24, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding this edit, you changed the meaning. First, there is no musical form "sonnets", "sestina stanzas", etc. Those are poetic forms. Second, the verse being set in those early days -- pre-madrigal -- was not of high literary quality, that being a later development (see the section about Bembo). Do you have the books by Alfred Einstein? He was the first to write about this in detail. Thanks, Antandrus (talk) 04:32, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]