Editing Jacques Arcadelt (section)

====Chansons====
Since Arcadelt lived both in France and Italy, writing secular music in both countries, his chansons and madrigals not unexpectedly share some features.  The chanson was by its nature a more stable form, often strophic and with patterned repetition; the madrigal, on the other hand, was usually through-composed.<ref>Einstein, Vol. I pp. 264–265</ref>  Arcadelt borrowed some features of the chanson when he wrote his madrigals, in the same way, he wrote some of his chansons with madrigalian features. Most of his chansons are syllabic and simple, with brief bursts of polyphonic writing, occasionally canonic, and with sections imitating the ''note nere'' style of the madrigal – the fast "black notes" producing the effect of a [[patter song]]. Some of his chansons were actually ''contrafacta'' of his madrigals (the same music, printed with new words French instead of Italian). Rarely in music history were the madrigal and the chanson more alike.<ref name="Grove"/>