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Meanings of madrigal in English
Secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.
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Usage of madrigal in English
1
We may all think of the madrigal as an early music phenomenon.
2
However, in return for your madrigal, accept the advice of a friend.
3
I must needs try my new-fledged pinions in sonnet, elogy, and madrigal.
4
Then the clarinet joins in a quiet madrigal of tender phrases.
5
All of these are set to madrigal music in five parts.
6
It is almost a madrigal, my dear Prince, is it not?
7
Do you happen to have been composing a madrigal last night?
8
Thomas Westwood, in an agreeable little madrigal, pictures the daisies:
9
I received from Messer Vincenzo Perini your letter with two sonnets and a madrigal.
10
She seemed to belong rightly to a madrigal-torequire viewing through rhyme and harmony.
11
The madrigal began at the bidding of Welch's arthritic forefinger.
12
It was made effective in accompanying the madrigal, that delightful flower of the Elizabethan age.
13
They circled round, singing; the instant one ceased another took it up, a perfect madrigal.
14
But it was therefore a poetic exercise, no more significant, Purney complained, than a madrigal.
15
It was Miss Eva Harracles, one of the principal contraltos in the glee and madrigal club.
16
I didn't learn to drive until I was 30, but I could have written a madrigal.
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