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

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 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 porous boundary between the religious and the secular becomes clear when considering the madrigals that Les Arts Florissants perform under the tenor and conductor Paul Agnew this summer.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2017

Monteverdi brought all the tricks he was learning composing madrigals and sacred choral music into his telling of Orpheus’s descent into the Underworld to rescue his recently lost lover, Euridice.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall