madrigal
IPA: mˈædrʌgʌɫ
noun
- (music) A song for a small number of unaccompanied voices; from 13th century Italy.
- (music) A polyphonic song for about six voices, from 16th century Italy.
- (poetry) A short poem, often pastoral, and suitable to be set to music.
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Examples of "madrigal" in Sentences
- The later history of the madrigal begins with Rore.
- The highest choir for girls is the madrigal singers.
- Another facet to the music of Moeran is the madrigal.
- This article describes the latter tradition of the madrigal.
- The Madrigal is an Italian musical form of the 14th century.
- She is the founding conductor of the Philippine Madrigal Singers.
- The madrigal singers have also competed in the heritage festival.
- The canzonetta was a specific offshoot of the madrigal in this vein.
- It was the most important and widespread predecessor to the madrigal.
- Rarely in music history were the madrigal and the chanson more alike.
- A madrigal was a secular composition, generally devoted to love, but in polyphonic style, and in one of the ecclesiastical modes.
- "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.
- She has also featured in a "madrigal" show at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival with local children performing a collection of poetry and plays.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.