madrigal
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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
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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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