Music and Time Annotation << Back On the Issue of Genre and Style Genesis of Madrigal Comedy (Based on Adriano Banchieri’s Plays) E.Z. Ishankulova The paper deals with the issues of genre genesis and style parameters of madrigal comedy which are disclosed on the basis of aesthetic concept of varieta and principles of macaronic stylistics. The succession of the stylistics to literary and theatrical genres of novellino, farce, commedia dell’arte and commedia erudita is discovered; the relationship of the literary language and dialects is retraced; the dialectal functions are defined. Key words: A. Banchieri, madrigal comedy, Italian Baroque. E-mail: elena-prazdnik7@mail.ru