How To Use Madrigal In A Sentence
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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.
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Mrs. Madrigal buttered another piece of toast.
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His madrigals were probably the first to be known to English composers before the importation of madrigals from Italy was customary.
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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
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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.
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The secular compositions include four Italian madrigals and nine ballate, two French virelays, and one Latin canon.
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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.
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Mrs. Madrigal buttered another piece of toast.
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The singers' repertoire ranges from sixties pop songs to madrigals and audience participation is always encouraged.
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I bought this record on the back of their wonderful Madra, which was unaccompanied madrigals and other such stuff.
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The first half of the performance includes madrigals, anthems and instrumental music from the 16th Century for which the choir will be joined by Elizabeth Dodd and Philip Gruar playing viols, recorders and the lute.
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In 1705, Lotti had a collection of madrigals published: Duetti, terzetti e madrigali a piu voci.
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In Mary's reign, England was exposed to the potent artistry of Flemish and Spanish music, while the seminal influence of Italy was always present in the shape of Palestrina's motets and the works of the Florentine madrigalists.
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The madrigal is a piece of vocal music adapted to words of an amorous or cheerful cast, composed for four, five, or six voices, and intended for performance in convivial parties or private musical societies.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832
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She has also featured in a "madrigal" show at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival with local children performing a collection of poetry and plays.
Undefined
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A madrigal was a secular composition, generally devoted to love, but in polyphonic style, and in one of the ecclesiastical modes.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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The two volumes of canzone italiane 1574–81 can also for the most part be classified as madrigals; the first volume was twice reprinted, and both volumes appeared in German translation in 1595.
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The transcendentally synthetic quality of this music, blending styles as diverse as the Prophetiae Sibyllarum and the late madrigals, stands in the sharpest possible contrast to what was in other hands already becoming the drily academic stile antico.
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I folded this kind of madrigal in prose, and sent it by Joseph, who handed it to Marguerite herself; she replied that she would send the answer later.
Camille
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The Silver Swan is a madrigal that many of us have sung, but it is unlikely that Gibbons would have minded hearing it played as an instrumental piece - he himself suggested that his madrigals could be played by viols instead.
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The Turin tablatures contain a similar range of music notated in new German keyboard tablature rather than staff notation, including transcriptions of motets and madrigals as well as idiomatic keyboard music.
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Without too much artistic licence, we can imagine a group entertaining themselves after a meal by madrigals sung together and the going on to celebrate mass the next morning with the same group of people now singing mass itself.
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The choir opened with a number of madrigals exulting the joys of love the wonders of travel and men bewailing the pain of unrequited love.
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`Prove it, then, and come to Mrs. Madrigal's wingding.
TALES OF THE CITY
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His other works include motets and madrigals.
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Mrs. Madrigal heaped more carrots onto Michael'splate.
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In general Newman feels that Rossi's madrigals are in an earlier style of composers such as Luca Marenzio.
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When Mary finally appeared, she made her apologies to Mrs Madrigal.
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Provided always, his disease proceed not originally from it, that he be not some light inamorato, some idle fantastic, who capers in conceit all the day long, and thinks of nothing else, but how to make jigs, sonnets, madrigals, in commendation of his mistress.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Gesualdo's later madrigals, however fascinating their scent of decadence, are an evolutionary dead end.
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The discovery in Rome in 1599 of an embalmed body, supposedly of St Cecilia, the tutelary saint of music, elicited papal approval for the airs and madrigals of the age of Monteverdi.
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First, she retells the Madrigal women's testimony to inform her audience of the systematic sterilization abuse happening not just to Chicanas but to thousands of poor and minority women all over the country.
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The group was madrigaling beautifully
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Madrigals for multiple voices are reconfigured for performance by a single mezzo-soprano and instruments - and not authentic ones, either!
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Wert also contributed to Il Lauro secco (1582) and Il Lauro verde (1583), collections of madrigals, mostly by Ferrarese composers, assembled in honour of Laura Peverara, another member of the ensemble.
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At the same time the evidence is conclusive that the madrigal was acquiring general popularity as a form of dramatic music, and the madrigal drama reached the zenith of its glory at the very moment when its fate was preparing in the experiments of Galilei and others in the new monodic style destined to become the basis of modern
Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
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The Turin tablatures contain a similar range of music notated in new German keyboard tablature rather than staff notation, including transcriptions of motets and madrigals as well as idiomatic keyboard music.
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As my analysis of Hernández's essay suggests, even though the Chicanas involved in the Madrigal case did not win in court, their experiences served multiple purposes outside the courtroom.
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From his teen to middle age, till the old age, Monteverdi has devoted his whole life to composing madrigal and publishing eight volumes of Madrigal altogether.
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She asserts that the music from this period demands a style of singing not unlike that of the Renaissance madrigals.
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There were dances and songs -- a sailor's contra-dance to the music of a horn pipe, a stately passamezzo by the Indian court, a madrigal and an ode in compliment to the Queen. [
Days of the Discoverers
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Mrs. Madrigal buttered another piece of toast.
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Any fans who fancy a consolation flutter should opt for 2-to Villarreal as history suggests this fate awaits them at El Madrigal on March 7.
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The singers' repertoire ranges from sixties pop songs to madrigals and audience participation is always encouraged.
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Monteverdi was equally fond of chromaticism, especially in his madrigals.
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This killer dressed like a popinjay, sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies.
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Before the sackbut, before the virginal struck perpendicular chords, our madrigals were sublime, loosing harmonies to unhinge the spheres.
Strange Bedfellows
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Its ancestry is in the madrigal, the round, the glee (which fostered numerous glee clubs), and the partsong.
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Lisdowney Choral Group under the baton of Geraldine Murphy with accompanist Jennifer Rudkins performed a wide repertoire ranging from madrigals to hits from musicals.
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It was my good fortune to find a nest on a copsy hilltop, where the bird's madrigals and lullabies mingled with those of the yellow-breasted chats, the indigo buntings, the blue-gray gnat catchers, and the Kentucky warblers.
Our Bird Comrades
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Mrs. Madrigal was perched on a stepladder in the hallway, replacing a light bulb.
MORE TALES OF THE CITY
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A few pieces of Italian polyphony and a couple of madrigals into their first rehearsal, someone pointed out that they had a concert coming up but no conductor.
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I need to ask one of my choristers tonight what it is about renaissance madrigals that he likes so much, and what about other music he dislikes, or is neutral to.
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Although the madrigal was a highly sophisticated musico-poetic form featuring advanced harmonies and subtle texts of great literary value, it was, after all, a choral form meant for unstaged performance.
Opera Today
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And the ricercars, though performed instrumentally here, were actually printed at the end of a volume of madrigals.
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The development from Orfeo to those two masterpieces is astonishing, and one can only speculate from the composer's madrigals and sacred music how it all happened.
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The music was drawn from his two most recent recitals recorded for Decca, a compilation of early-seventeenth-century English song and Italian madrigals and familiar folk songs from the British Isles.
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Other early four-part madrigals appeared in Barrè’s Roman anthologies of madrigali ariosi.
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Because the same music was used for every stanza, the possibilities for detailed word-painting were limited: this is the key difference between the frottola and the through-composed madrigal.
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In Martin's mind, the madrigal was mainly a chamber contrapuntal form, best suited to small homogeneous forces and not necessarily limited to voices.
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The madrigals of the baroque period were not written for professionals, and neither were Haydn's string quartets.
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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
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They were seated at a card table Mrs. Madrigal had hauled up from the basement.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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Fortunately, the remaining part of the music archive was undamaged by the disaster: this comprises an important collection of madrigals, vesperals and processionals, including an outstanding fifteenth-century Processional for Holy Week, well-known to scholars.
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perfectly beautiful, but excessively tiresome"; they laid their heads together over Descartes '_Discours de la Méthode_, and profoundly admired the philosopher; they were enraptured by the madrigals on flowers, more than three score in number, offered as the _Guirlande de Julie_ on Mademoiselle's fête; they gravely debated the question which should be the approved spelling, _muscadin_ or
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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Though Claudio Cavina's fine group are best known for their recordings of the two greatest late-renaissance madrigal composers, Gesualdo and Monteverdi, they have not neglected the works of less celebrated 16th-century composers.
Luzzaschi: Concerto della Dame: La Venexiana/Cavina – review
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The Silver Swan is a madrigal that many of us have sung, but it is unlikely that Gibbons would have minded hearing it played as an instrumental piece - he himself suggested that his madrigals could by played by viols instead.
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Instead they had to encounter the art by becoming surrogate members of other communities, or sing madrigals or play viols or the virginals at home.
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The Turin tablatures contain a similar range of music notated in new German keyboard tablature rather than staff notation, including transcriptions of motets and madrigals as well as idiomatic keyboard music.
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Three madrigals are marked by a symbol consisting of a dot with a small vertical line below it.
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Now, Weelkes's 1597 set of madrigals comprises twenty-four pieces in four groups of six, with the first six madrigals for three voices, and the next groups for four, five and six voices.
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After college, Dawn spent 18 years working at a local formalwear company, outfitting everyone from bridegrooms to high school madrigal singers.
Shop owner overwhelmed by community support during hard times
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First, they imported madrigals (settings of poetry usually for five voices: two sopranos, alto, tenor, and bass) from Italy.
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`Prove it, then, and come to Mrs. Madrigal's wingding.
TALES OF THE CITY
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Snuggled away in other cottages, you'll find chestnut sellers and storytellers, mummers and madrigal singers - to really get into the spirit of the thing, you could wassail your way from door to door.
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Vecchi composed some excellent church music, but his fame rests on his light madrigals and canzonettas, written in an eminently singable and attractive style.
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The first half of the concert features the singers performing madrigals, interspersed with instrumental music of the same period - mostly played by recorder consort.
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The popularity of such song-forms as the "madrigal," which was sung without musical accompaniment, made it easy for the public stage to cater to the prevalent taste.
A Study of Poetry
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His secular vocal music, monodic and polyphonic, is mainly contained in five volumes of Musiche, and ten volumes of madrigals and villanellas.
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The move towards a concerted style is seen in Monteverdi's madrigal output.
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Denise at BlogHer relates the story of former blogger Madrigal of Agony who was inexplicably "dooced" out of her disability coverage for blogging about her daily pain.
Saturday Slumgullion #6
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Whether in strophic arias, simple canzonettas or elaborate madrigals, Kiehr's singing is effortlessly lush and nicely emotionally understated.
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We also help to swell the singing when early madrigals are included in a performance.
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Whether in strophic arias, simple canzonettas or elaborate madrigals, Kiehr's singing is effortlessly lush and nicely emotionally understated.
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It consists of sonnets (and these are the more numerous) of canzoni, of sestine, of ballate, and of madrigals.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip