Definition of Madrigalian

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Madrigalian

madreporaria
madrepore
madrepores
madreporian
madreporians
madreporic
madreporier
madreporiform
madreporite
madreporites
madres
madrier
madrigal
madrigaler
madrigalers
madrigalian (current term)
madrigalist
madrigalists
madrigals
madrilene
madrilenes
madrina
madriporian coral
madrona
madronas
madrone
madrones
madrono
madronos
madroño

Literary usage of Madrigalian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. London by Charles Knight (1843)
"But the time of Elizabeth is still more remarkable for its madrigalian composers, who, in number and excellence, almost form to music what the dramatists of ..."

2. Young People's Story of Music by Ida Prentice Whitcomb (1908)
"XXVII THE madrigalian ERA PERHAPS it was because England was an island that it seemed very much cut off from the kinds of music that were known in France, ..."

3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Warren in 1784 ; seven of these are arranged for six voices in Vincent Novello's ' Studies in madrigalian Scoring.' The finest pieces have been included in ..."

4. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1902)
"Long before the days when such progressions were viewed harmonically, the madrigalian writers had developed their cadences from this harmonic germ, ..."

5. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas (1891)
"But among the most accomplished and most productive composers of the madrigalian period, none have acquired a more brilliant, or more justly-earned ..."

6. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland, George Grove (1880)
"If we go back three centurie«, that is to the zenith of the madrigalian era, ... Thomas Ravenscroft and Weelkes, among other composers of the madrigalian ..."

7. Brahms by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1911)
"Von edler Art is perhaps the loveliest of the first book ; it has a hint of the madrigalian style about it, as has also No. ..."

8. The Maecenas And The Madrigalist: Patrons, Patronage, And The Origins Of The by Anthony M. Cummings (2004)
"This source evidence, though oblique, places the Medici exceedingly close to developments leading from madrigalian antecedents to the madrigal itself. ..."

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