madrigal

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• From the late 1580s onwards, the ‘craze’ for the madrigal, scored for a cappella voices or accompanied by one or more lutes, almost exactly mirrored the contemporary enthusiasm for the sonnet.
• And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
• Mrs. Madrigal buttered another piece of toast.
• His madrigals were probably the first to be known to English composers before the importation of madrigals from Italy was customary.
• I heard some of the people in my college sing Monteverdi's madrigal 'Lamento della Ninfa,' and I was moved to tears by it," he recalled. When Sheer Power Is Not Enough
• The form traveled all over Europe, and became particularly popular in England, where an accompanied variation of the madrigal, the lute song, took hold around the time of Shakespeare.
• The secular compositions include four Italian madrigals and nine ballate, two French virelays, and one Latin canon.
• Lassus’s older style is not completely absorbed by these novelties, and in a few pieces his earlier madrigals are recalled the sestina Quando il giorno. Archive 2009-06-01
• Mrs. Madrigal buttered another piece of toast.
• The singers' repertoire ranges from sixties pop songs to madrigals and audience participation is always encouraged.