madrigal

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

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

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2016

The 15th madrigal begins by Peter asking life to leave him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2016

Music of the Season will be performed by madrigal singers from the St. Albans and National Cathedral schools, led by Charles Bowers.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 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

Today, I still know only a fraction of the nearly 500 pieces of Schütz’s that survive: motets, madrigals, sacred concertos, oratorios and more.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2020

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

Arcadelt’s first book of madrigals was the most widely reprinted songbook in Europe in the second half of the sixteenth century.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall