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

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

What Monteverdi did in his madrigals was to take the idea of triads and chords, and start to mess with their chemistry.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall