madrigal

At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2021

The vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth realized these different musical styles — Baroque madrigal, Appalachian folk song, Manhattan Transfer-style close harmony, buzzing rock anthem — with ease through amplification.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2019

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

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

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

The harmonic progressions in Monteverdi’s madrigals challenged conventions of the time and prompted an attack from the conservative theorist Giovanni Artusi.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2017

One of the madrigals they still teach children on very hot afternoons in public schools.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat