madrigals in English

noun
1
a part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically arranged in elaborate counterpoint and without instrumental accompaniment. Originally used of a genre of 14th-century Italian songs, the term now usually refers to English or Italian songs of the late 16th and early 17th c., in a free style strongly influenced by the text.
Whether in strophic arias, simple canzonettas or elaborate madrigals , Kiehr's singing is effortlessly lush and nicely emotionally understated.

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1. Gesualdo's later madrigals, however fascinating their scent of decadence, are an evolutionary dead end.

2. 9 The frottola and madrigal were evidently good commercial lines - though there were also madrigals for ceremonial occasions.

3. Find more Gesualdo / Craft, Robert / Sol Babitz / Grace-Lynne Martin / Ralph Schaeffer - Canzonettas, Madrigals, Gailliards, Sacrae Cantiones, Psalms vinyl records …

4. Principal: Thank you, Mr. Buzzard; the hooter madrigals have never sounded sweeter. And I wish you well at your new school.

5. Laurie Paget; Canzonettas and madrigals, Early Music, Volume XXIII, Issue 4, 1 November 1995, Pages 709–711, https://doi.org/10.1093/earlyj/XXIII.4.709

6. ‘Vecchi composed some excellent church music, but his fame rests on his light madrigals and Canzonettas, written in an eminently singable and attractive style.’

7. ‘Vecchi composed some excellent church music, but his fame rests on his light madrigals and Canzonettas, written in an eminently singable and attractive style.’

8. Barrad consistently collaborates with composers across the world to create music that speaks to our time and is currently working on several new pieces, including the upcoming release of L.A.-based composer Reena Esmail’s Quarantine Madrigals with Austin-based ensemble Conspirare

9. The texts of these secular works are certainly not the jolly, innuendo-laden flirtations that English madrigals might bring to mind; they are lachrymose, sometimes narcissistic, Bewailings of romantic misfortune, and although they are all love poems, well over half of them make reference to death.

10. ‘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.’ ‘The song, from which I removed the family name, was published in the 1890s, and bewailed the loss of the family name, in the 17th century, by Royal proscription.’