Secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.
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We may all think of the madrigal as an early music phenomenon.
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However, in return for your madrigal, accept the advice of a friend.
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I must needs try my new-fledged pinions in sonnet, elogy, and madrigal.
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Then the clarinet joins in a quiet madrigal of tender phrases.
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All of these are set to madrigal music in five parts.
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It is almost a madrigal, my dear Prince, is it not?
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Do you happen to have been composing a madrigal last night?
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Thomas Westwood, in an agreeable little madrigal, pictures the daisies:
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I received from Messer Vincenzo Perini your letter with two sonnets and a madrigal.
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She seemed to belong rightly to a madrigal-torequire viewing through rhyme and harmony.
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The madrigal began at the bidding of Welch's arthritic forefinger.
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It was made effective in accompanying the madrigal, that delightful flower of the Elizabethan age.
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They circled round, singing; the instant one ceased another took it up, a perfect madrigal.
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But it was therefore a poetic exercise, no more significant, Purney complained, than a madrigal.
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It was Miss Eva Harracles, one of the principal contraltos in the glee and madrigal club.
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I didn't learn to drive until I was 30, but I could have written a madrigal.
