madrigal

Example Sentences

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And her works go about answering them studiously but sensuously — with earnestness, wit, whimsy, self-awareness and music that ranges freely among, for a start, Baroque madrigals, power ballads and barbed modernism.

From New York Times

She had a good musical upbringing with piano lessons, doing things like madrigal singing when she was young.

From Washington Post

At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.

From Los Angeles Times

The first concentrates on Monteverdi’s madrigals of love and war; the second, on works by French composers like Marais, Rameau and Rebel.

From New York Times

Her recordings of Monteverdi’s madrigals were a landmark in the early music movement.

From New York Times