madrigal

She is shadowed by a quartet of look-alikes in candy-colored coats, who form a kind of madrigal ensemble, singing in cool tones without vibrato.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018

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

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

He was represented here not only by music from operas devoted to him by Vivaldi, Handel and Haydn but also by a de Wert madrigal.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2015

And now there was an acrimonious madrigal, with parts sung in all quarters of the car.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Mr. Gardiner said both the madrigals and operas still speak directly to audiences more than four centuries later thanks to an emotional range that was unparalleled at the time.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2017

In his madrigals, Monteverdi dips in and out of all kinds of chords, many of them startlingly unrelated, in order to create ear-catching effects.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall