The old story was kept alive through an entertaining madrigal. From LearnThat.org.
A madrigal was a secular composition, generally devoted to love, but in polyphonic style, and in one of the ecclesiastical modes. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference
She has also featured in a "madrigal" show at Edinburgh's Fringe Festival with local children performing a collection of poetry and plays. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The madrigal was a musical Mediterranean. From Wordnik.com. [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference
He brought a fresh, individual touch to the madrigal. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
After a madrigal or two, and an Italian song of Master. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
Taruskin comments only on the opening of one madrigal. From Wordnik.com. [From the Troubadours to Frank Sinatra] Reference
Get that?? the day of the madrigal feaste it disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [zingerbabai Diary Entry] Reference
ANd b/c of the snow, the madrigal feaste wuz cancelled for that day. From Wordnik.com. [zingerbabai Diary Entry] Reference
The High Lord smiled at him, and the madrigal felt a familiar chill. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
I'm - she uses Monteverdi madrigal and also some melodies from Orfeo. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Kashkashian's Vocal Viola] Reference
The madrigal differed from this only in dealing with secular subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
Marlowe is the author of the pleasant madrigal, called by Izaak Walton. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
Thomas Westwood, in an agreeable little madrigal, pictures the daisies. From Wordnik.com. [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference
I must needs try my new-fledged pinions in sonnet, elogy, and madrigal. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The madrigal wet his lips, reaching within himself for the next puzzle. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
The three poets, with three lutes, were singing a madrigal in her honour. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
I can't wait for mutley's twelve verse madrigal - accompanied on the Lyre. From Wordnik.com. [Blog v Life] Reference
One madrigal introduces amusing imitations of cuckoo, nightingale and frog. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
Johnnie hummed the last few bars of a popular madrigal in slow and dirge-like tones. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Then it came back, then it disappeared again right when the madrigal feaste started. From Wordnik.com. [zingerbabai Diary Entry] Reference
"Wine, sir madrigal?" the magus asked, and glanced toward the door in the west wall. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
Like Orazio Vecchi he was interested in converting the madrigal to dramatic purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Benzamin called softly to the girl, who walked to her mentor, eyes still on the madrigal. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
The following madrigal seems more brilliant and more pleasing; it is an allusion to fable. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
But it was therefore a poetic exercise, no more significant, Purney complained, than a madrigal. From Wordnik.com. [A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717)] Reference
For the last three years my brother-in-law has been in a choir and doing medieval madrigal stuff. From Wordnik.com. [This much I know: Andy McNab] Reference
With even the smallest of voices she should join a choir or madrigal society and learn to sing at sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886.] Reference
"Yet still the lacy Spires of Truth sing Beauty's madrigal And she herself will ever dwell along the Grand Canal!". From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
The following is a madrigal by M. de la Sablière, which has always been held in high estimation by people of taste. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Are there not also choral and madrigal societies, glee-clubs, and concerts innumerable, in every part of the country?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
SIEGEL: The Monteverdi madrigal sounds just out of reach, just beneath - and on the partially penetrable dark surface. From Wordnik.com. [Kim Kashkashian's Vocal Viola] Reference
The elven voices had made of her name a madrigal whose beauty enchanted even the most obdurate and hardened human heart. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Lost Star]
She had the gift of music, and, sometimes on the journey, would break out with a catch or madrigal by Marot, Caillette, or herself. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Last night I wrote a brand new song whose first line comes from a gospel song Katryna and I sang in our madrigal group in high school. From Wordnik.com. [September 29, 2005] Reference
Delicacy expresses soft and agreeable sentiments and ingenious praise; thus finesse belongs more to epigram, and delicacy to madrigal. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
But we know that at the same time madrigal singing was one of the favorite pastimes of musicians as well as of wealthy musical amateurs. From Wordnik.com. [Music and Musicians] Reference
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