madrigal

She had a good musical upbringing with piano lessons, doing things like madrigal singing when she was young.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2022

It was also enjoyed in chamber concerts at Queen Elizabeth I’s court, in madrigal recitals, religious gatherings and in informal settings and street performances.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2018

They make expert use of the word-painting techniques of the Renaissance madrigal and Baroque opera.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2016

Each madrigal, moreover, begins with a serene, straightforward melody but gradually becomes contrapuntally intricate and agitated and multidimensional.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2016

Retiring to my tent at night, I was serenaded by a madrigal of creaks and percussive cracks, a reminder that I was lying on a moving river of ice.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

But a startling number of pieces—symphonies, sonatas, madrigals, sonnets, even ambitious operas—were composed to the highest standards of professional musicianship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

With opera barely in its infancy, d’India was a master of what was then the primary progressive form of vocal expression: intimate chamber madrigals for one or two voices and a few instruments at most.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

The Middle Ages and Renaissance produced a body of “pestilential music”:motets, madrigals and other compositions responding to the horrific plagues of those times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2020

It opened with a reworking of “Incenerite spoglie,” from Monteverdi’s sixth book of madrigals, set to an intense poem of grief for a dead lover.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2019

Nor was it just in his madrigals that Monteverdi started shifting chords around for the sheer surprise and delight of it.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall