How to use in-sentence of “madrigal”:
– The madrigal was the most important secular form of music of its time.
– The madrigal started in Italy and became very popular for a short while in England from the 1580s.
– Of course, other madrigal composers used such words, but Gesualdo’s music is really extreme.
– The style of Arcadelt’s music influenced the next generation of madrigal composers.
– Sometimes the lines would also be played by an instrument, but the madrigal is usually sung unaccompanied.
– The madrigal suddenly became extremely popular in England and remained so until after 1620 when it gradually became less important.
– Nowadays, madrigals are often sung by high school or college madrigal choirs often as an after-dinner entertainment.
– One very famous madrigal is called “Il bianco e dolce cigno”.
