madrigal
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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
Nono then calls the score a madrigal for many “travelers” with Gidon Kremer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2017
They make expert use of the word-painting techniques of the Renaissance madrigal and Baroque opera.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 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
Today, I still know only a fraction of the nearly 500 pieces of Schütz’s that survive: motets, madrigals, sacred concertos, oratorios and more.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2020
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
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