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

For the last madrigal, the dying Di Lasso turned to a 13th century Latin text in which Jesus accuses Peter of inflicting a graver internal agony than even the indescribable pain of crucifixion. 

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2016

Music of the Season will be performed by madrigal singers from the St. Albans and National Cathedral schools, led by Charles Bowers.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 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 first concentrates on Monteverdi’s madrigals of love and war; the second, on works by French composers like Marais, Rameau and Rebel.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 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