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Definition of Madrigals
1. madrigal [n] - See also: madrigal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Madrigals
Literary usage of Madrigals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Italian Renaissance in England: Studies by Lewis Einstein (1902)
"The musical accompaniment to which such songs were sung came in many instances
from across the Alps. madrigals also which were especially popular in England ..."
2. Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum by British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts, Augustus Hughes-Hughes (1906)
"See also under secular madrigals. " CANTANO gli angioletti Santus," etc. ...
A SCORE of the complete work from which the preceding madrigals are taken. ..."
3. An Elizabethan Virginal Book: Being a Critical Essay on the Contents of a by Edward Woodall Naylor (1905)
"the 19 Preludes (13 by six writers, and 6 more anonymous); and Philips's arrangements
of 9 Italian madrigals or parts of madrigals, with which may be ..."
4. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"This work was a collection of the finest madrigals, chiefly by Italian composers
of the time, and the editor, Yonge, appended a preface which comments on ..."
5. English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1897)
"Many of the lighter songs are, if not direct translations from the Italian, close
imitations of the more favourite madrigals, ..."
6. Catalogue of the Library of the Sacred Harmonic Society by Sacred Harmonic Society Library, William Henry Husk (1872)
"The Ballets, for five voices, composed by him, together with the madrigals,
&c., by Orazio Vecchi, and the greater part of the Canons, &c., printed with the ..."
7. The Elizabethan Lyric: A Study by John Erskine (1903)
"The same fidelity to the music rather than to the words, which has been noticed
in Musica Transalpina, is here announced in the title, Italian madrigals ..."
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