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Madrigal logo #10101) Baroque period vocal piece 2) Baroque vocal work 3) Composition by Gabriel Fauré 4) Follows a strict poetic form 5) Love poem for singing 6) Medieval music 7) Mixed early music group 8) Sing madrigals 9) Spanish surname 10) Western medieval lyric form
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Madrigal

Madrigal logo #10101) Lay
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madrigal logo #21032an 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.
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Madrigal logo #21002• (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 modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with ...
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madrigal logo #21003form 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]
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madrigal logo #209731. 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 words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and ad...
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Madrigal

Madrigal logo #22429An italian short poem or part song suitable for singing by three or more voices, first appearing in
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Madrigal

Madrigal logo #20972Mad'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 cattle, Greek ma`ndra fold, stable; hence...
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Madrigal

Madrigal logo #20166A short love poem which can easily be set to music.
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Madrigal

Madrigal logo #21217A 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. Several English poets of the time of Elizabeth I and C...
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Madrigal

Madrigal logo #21217Madrigal 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 more unaccompanied voices, or played upon viols. The...
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Madrigal logo #22284A madrigal is an Italian song form, often with Italian text. It is a short work in one movement, sung by a small group of vocalists. Madrigal texts were often set to music using word painting (where the melody would follow the line of the text, e.g. waterfall would have music in the contour of falling water).
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madrigal logo #20400[n] - an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices 2. [v] - sing madrigals
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madrigal logo #10137(fourteenth-century) an Italian secular genre using the form a a b or a a a b . If polyphonic, the top line is often more florid than the bottom. Not related to the sixteenth-century madrigal.
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Madrigal

Madrigal logo #20508Renaissance secular work originating in Italy for voices, with or without instruments.
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madrigal logo #20974 noun an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form
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madrigal logo #21221Form 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
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Madrigal

Madrigal logo #21781A contrapuntal song written for at least three voices, usually without accompaniment.
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madrigal logo #21784 (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.
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madrigal logo #22288a composition for unaccompanied voices. It originated in Italy in the fifteenth century, and was written in from two to eight voices.
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madrigal logo #23665 an unaccompanied partsong for several voices
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madrigal logo #23665 an unaccompanied partsong for several voices
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madrigal logo #23665[Intelligent words] an unaccompanied partsong for several voices
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