Madrigal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MADRIGAL in dictionary:

VERB:
• sing madrigals
NOUN:
• an unaccompanied song in several parts in counterpoint
• a part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically unaccompanied and arranged in elaborate counterpoint.
• A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.
• An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.
• an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form
• 16th–17th-century part song for unaccompanied voices
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a short lyric poem
• 16th–17th-century part song for unaccompanied voices

Words related to MADRIGAL

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Words that contain MADRIGAL

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How to use MADRIGAL in a sentence

• So Croisilles, having reached Honfleur, embarked with a satisfied heart, his money and his madrigal in his pocket, and as soon as he jumped ashore ran to the paternal house.
• Only the old madrigal, with its half-forgotten words that other generations sang before they fell asleep.
• What had been weakness and license in the madrigal became strength and beauty in the opera.
• For a little while they seemed to be busy practising a madrigal.
• In regard to the choruses, then, we must bear in mind the well established characteristics of the madrigal dramas of the sixteenth century.
• In these works the choruses were set to music in the madrigal style and they were frequently of great beauty.
• The Netherlands musicians began early to write secular songs in a style which eventually developed into the madrigal.
• It was from such works that he advanced to the composition of the madrigal of which he was so famous a composer and which he raised to the dignity of an art work.
• At the time of the full development of the madrigal the serious and humorous elements which dwelt together in the frottola separated completely.
• We read frequently that the first instance of solo singing was the delivery of a madrigal of Corteccia in a play of 1539.
• The Italian madrigal had a specifically Italian character.
• That her first experiments were made in the popular madrigal form was to be expected.
• Certain it is that, despite the earlier publications of Petrucci, the madrigal became dominant in Italy after the advent of Willaert.
• We are therefore to understand that in the plays about to be mentioned the madrigal style prevailed in the music.
• In this spectacle was heard the solo madrigal for Sileno already mentioned.
• We shall in all likelihood better understand this after a survey of the labors of the dominant figure of the artistic period of the humorous madrigal drama.
• The master spirit of the madrigal drama was Orazio Vecchi, born about 1551 at Modena.
• All of these are set to madrigal music in five parts.
• Further directions for the performance of a madrigal drama by Vecchi tell us that when a single person speaks on the stage, all the musical parts join in representing him.
• The madrigal was now the solo form with an instrumental accompaniment made from the under voices, and this solo form was not used in the madrigal drama.
• The music of the madrigal was composed by Signor Archilei.
• And now in the strains, slow and faster, sounds the sigh above and below, all in a madrigal of woe.
• In spirited retorts the martial madrigal proceeds, but it is not all mere war and courage.
• In slower pace and hush of sound sings a madrigal of tender phrases.
• The other judge, Quiroga de Madrigal, obtained the bishoprick of Mechoacan.
• In the still, dark shade of the palace wall, Where the peacocks strut, Where the queen may have heard my madrigal, Together we sat.
• But it was therefore a poetic exercise, no more significant, Purney complained, than a madrigal.

Similar words containing MADRIG without suffix al

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