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madrigal

[mad-ri-guhl] / ˈmæd rɪ gəl /


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It was also enjoyed in chamber concerts at Queen Elizabeth I’s court, in madrigal recitals, religious gatherings and in informal settings and street performances.

From Seattle Times Mar. 7, 2018

Nono then calls the score a madrigal for many “travelers” with Gidon Kremer.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 5, 2017

They make expert use of the word-painting techniques of the Renaissance madrigal and Baroque opera.

From The New Yorker Dec. 25, 2016

He was represented here not only by music from operas devoted to him by Vivaldi, Handel and Haydn but also by a de Wert madrigal.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2015

And now there was an acrimonious madrigal, with parts sung in all quarters of the car.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

But a startling number of pieces—symphonies, sonatas, madrigals, sonnets, even ambitious operas—were composed to the highest standards of professional musicianship.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

The Middle Ages and Renaissance produced a body of “pestilential music”:motets, madrigals and other compositions responding to the horrific plagues of those times.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2020

It opened with a reworking of “Incenerite spoglie,” from Monteverdi’s sixth book of madrigals, set to an intense poem of grief for a dead lover.

From Washington Post Apr. 7, 2019

Mr. Gardiner said both the madrigals and operas still speak directly to audiences more than four centuries later thanks to an emotional range that was unparalleled at the time.

From New York Times Jul. 24, 2017

One of the madrigals they still teach children on very hot afternoons in public schools.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat




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