Paris two hundred songs, as many sonnets, four hundred epigrams, and more than a thousand madrigals all made by me, without counting riddles and portraits.
Madrigals are pretty enough when they are neatly turned.
Queen Elizabeth is called “the peerless Oriana,” especially in themadrigals entitled The Triumphs of Oriana (1601).
The preziose held weekly receptions at their houses, and assembled poets and cavaliers from all quarters, who entertained the ladies with their lampoons and gallantries, their madrigals and gossip, their sonnets and their repartees.
But, my darling, Colin and Chloe cannot spend their whole lives singing madrigals and stringing daisies.
It is at least certain, that some of our old madrigals are as beautiful in language as they are in melody.
A few of these madrigals will also be found in Mr. Campbell’s Specimens.
His first four volumes of madrigals show a very intermittent sense of beauty.
What is certain is that his first book of madrigals was published in Venice in 1555, and that in the same year he speaks of himself in the preface of Italian and French songs and Latin motets as if he had recently come from Rome.
It must be confessed that in the Italian madrigal (as distinguished from the villanella and other light forms), Orlando never attained complete certainty of touch, though some of his later madrigals are indeed glorious.
Footnote 384: See theMadrigals in Opere Burlesche, vol.
At my grandmother's I have found boxes full of couplets, madrigals and biting satires.
And, not long after, what madrigals and allusions!
Some take no pleasure but in amorous passions, no delight but in madrigals of love, wetting Cupid's wings with rose water, and tricking up his quiver with sweete perfumes.
And he began to sing madrigals to Mademoiselle Amelie, and persuaded her that she was the prettiest woman in the world.
It was all very well for the three thousand jets of gas to blink at him, Rodolphe went on at it all the same, and continued to pour out a flood of novel madrigals to his partner.
Rodolphe will compose madrigals to you, and we will drink all manner of things to our dead and gone loves, with liberty to resuscitate them.
In 1588 he published Psalmes, Sonets and Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, and in the same year contributed two madrigals to Nicolas Yonge's Musica Transalpina.
We hear the echo of those songs; and in some towns at Christmas or the New Year old madrigals still sound in praise of Oriana and of Phyllis and the country life.
For specimens of these and other madrigals in Drummond cf.
Everybody has heard of madrigals, and almost everybody has heard of the Madrigal Society; but everybody does not know what madrigals are, and almost everybody has not dined with the Madrigal Society.
At the annual festival, where the madrigals put on all their splendour, the ladies are admitted; but, alas!
There is no difference between the sacred motets and the secular madrigals of the early polyphonists.
Some really beautiful madrigals exist, but Purcell could have done almost if not quite as well without them.
An empty gourd with a few madrigalsand sonnets, and fine images, conned from the 'Grand Cyrus,' rattling about like dried seeds?
And I fear that his is too cavalier a wit, and that his sonnets and madrigals savor too much of loyalty to the Anointed of the Lord and to His Church to have proved acceptable to the worshipful company with whom I have been engaged.
Rolland, with his customary acumen, notes that in Vecchi's five part madrigals for the stage the employment of the odd voice is plainly governed by musical needs.
Subsequently he entered the service of Count Alfonso of Novellara and in 1558 he published a book of madrigals which attracted widespread attention.
Fully a century later compositions "da cantare e sonare" betray to us the fact that bodies of instruments performing without voices merely played the madrigalswhich at other times were sung.
These amateurs became convinced that there was no longer any satisfaction to be drawn from the old way of singing the soprano part of madrigals and turning the other parts into an instrumental accompaniment.
The very music of the church went out into the world and became earthly in the madrigals of love.
Some had twelve, some fourteen and some even sixteen strings, so that madrigals and compositions both chromatic and diatonic could be performed and a fine harmony produced.
The first set of madrigals was reprinted in 1845 by the Musical Antiquarian Society.
These pieces seem to have given birth to that passion for madrigals which was afterwards so prevalent, and thus became the models of contemporary musicians.
Another thrush may there rehearse The madrigals which sweetest are; No more for me!
One day it was announced from the castle that her Highness had commanded a famous troupe of Italian musicians to perform a series of madrigals before the court.
In the long room where the madrigals had been sung on that well-remembered evening when Wilhelmine was installed lady-in-waiting to her Highness, a tall fir-tree was planted in a gilded barrel.
The musicians meanwhile performed a series of madrigals accompanied by viole d'amore, violins, and viole da gamba.
The same madrigals were used, the same melodramatic protestations were spoken by all.
Sebastiano’s letters during 1533 often refer to an edition of some madrigals written by Michael Angelo and set to music by Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Giacomo Arcadelt, and Constanzo Festa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "madrigals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
