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.
• 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.
• I bought this record on the back of their wonderful Madra, which was unaccompanied madrigals and other such stuff.