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Madrigal
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Madrigal
A short love poem which can easily be set to music.
Found op http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm
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madrigal
[n] - an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices 2. [v] - sing madrigals Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=madrigal
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Madrigal
Renaissance secular work originating in Italy for voices, with or without instruments.
Found op http://www.cbso.co.uk/?page=concerts/glossary.html
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Madrigal
Mad'ri·gal (măd'rĭ*g a l) noun [ Italian madrigale , OIt. madriale , mandriale (cf. Late Latin matriale ); of uncertain origin, possibly from It mandra flock, Latin mandra stall, herd of cat... Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/5
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madrigal
1. A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought. 'Whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal.' (Milton) ... 2. An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular wor... Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?madrigal
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madrigal
noun an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=madrigal
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Madrigal
• (n.) A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought. • (n.) 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 m... Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/madrigal/
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madrigal
form of vocal chamber music that originated in northern Italy during the 14th century, declined and all but disappeared in the 15th, flourished anew ... [13 related articles] Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/m/8
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Madrigal
[ensemble] The Ensemble Madrigal (Moscow) is an early music group. It was formed in 1965 by the Russian composer and harpsichord player Andrey Volkonsky to perform Russian and Western sacred music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. Its members were featured soloists of the Mo... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_(ensemble)
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Madrigal
Madrigal is a term often used in a loose sense for any light song, but properly denoting a type of song of Italian origin which normally consists of two or three tercets, followed by one or more couplets. It is also used for the music written for such songs. Madrigals were either sung by three or mo... Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/VM.HTM
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Madrigal
[Trecento] The Madrigal is an Italian musical form of the 14th century. The form flourished ca. 1300 – 1370 with a short revival near 1400. It was a composition for two (or rarely three) voices, sometimes on a pastoral subject. In its earliest development it was simple construction: France... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_(Trecento)
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Madrigal
A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six. Madrigals originated in Italy during the 1520s... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal
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Madrigal
[disambiguation] Madrigal is a European musical form of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Madrigal may also refer to: ==Music== == Literature == ==Places== ... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_(disambiguation)
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madrigal
an Italian short poem or part song suitable for singing by three or more voices, first appearing in England in the anthology Musica Transalpina. There is no fixed rhyme scheme or line length. For example, the anonymous 'My Love in her Attire doth shew her wit. Found op http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic
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madrigal
madrigal, name for two different forms of Italian music, one related to the poetic madrigal in the 14th cent., the other the most common form of secular vocal music in the 16th cent. The poetic madrigal is a lyric consisting of one to four strophes of three lines followed by a two-line strophe calle... Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0831088.html
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Madrigal
A mad'igal is a short amorous poem, consisting of not less than three or four stanzas or strophes, and containing some tender and delicate, though simple thought, suitably expressed. The madrigal was first cultivated in Italy, and those of Tasso are among the finest specimens of Italian poetry. Seve... Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AM.HTM
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madrigal
Form of secular song in four or five parts, usually sung without instrumental accompaniment. It originated in 14th-century Italy. Madrigal composers include Andrea Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Thomas Morley, and Orlando Gibbons Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0010632.html
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Madrigal
[poetry] Madrigal (madrigale) is the name of a form of poetry, the exact nature of which has never been decided in English. The definition given in the New English Dictionary, "a short lyrical poem of amatory character," offers no distinctive formula; some madrigals are long, and many have n... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_(poetry)
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Madrigal
[album] The first and most successful single from Madrigal was レモンキャンディ. While Chara wrote the song entirely herself, the arrangement was split between six people: Chara, rock musician Yasuyuki Okamura, Shinichi Igarashi (who formerly collaborated on Duca with Chara, two memb... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_(album)
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Madrigal
[Yes song] "Madrigal" is a song performed by progressive rock band Yes. It is featured as track number 3 in their 1978 album Tormato. The song was written by Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman, and features an string arrangement made by Andrew Pryce Jackman, an original idea of Rick Wakeman. ==De... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_(Yes_song)
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Madrigal
[music] Longipterygids are a group of specialized early enantiornithe birds from the Early Cretaceous of China. ... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrigal_(music)
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Madrigal
A contrapuntal song written for at least three voices, usually without accompaniment. Found op http://www.classicalworks.com/html/glossary.html
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madrigal
(1) a 14th-century Italian style of setting secular verse for two or three unaccompanied voices; (2) a 16th/17th-century contrapuntal setting of verse (usually secular) for several equally important voice parts, usually unaccompanied. Found op http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/glossary.htm
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madrigal
1) A short love poem which can easily be set to music 2) Partsong Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/madrigal/1
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