madrigal

Example Sentences

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Are Gesualdo’s madrigals and Caravaggio’s masterpieces any less beautiful because the composer and the painter were murderers?

From Washington Post

The poems that make up the first third of Spaar’s career overview are cast as madrigals: brief odes to everything from spring onions to 1970s New Jersey, with surprising notes of eros.

From New York Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

Her recordings of Monteverdi’s madrigals were a landmark in the early music movement.

From New York Times