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Definitions: Madrigal |
MadrigalNoun1. An unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form. Verb1. Sing madrigals; "The group was madrigaling beautifully". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "madrigal" was first used: 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Madrigal \Mad"ri*gal\, noun. [Italian madrigale, Old Italian madriale, mandriale (Compare to late Latin matriale); of uncertain origin, possibly from It mandra flock, from Latin expression mandra stall, herd of cattle, Greek fold, stable; hence, madrigal, originally, pastoral song.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Poetry | Poem; epic, epic poem; epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A madrigal is a setting for 4-6 voices of a secular text, often in Italian. The madrigal has its origins in the frottola and has been influenced by the motet and the French chanson of the renaissance. It is related mostly by name alone to the Italian trecento-madrigal of the late 13th and 14th century; those madrigals were simple settings of 2 or 3 voices with no instrumental company.The madrigal was the most important secular form of music of its time, it bloomed especially in the second half of the 16th century and lost its importance by the midst of the 17th century, when it vanished through the rise of newer secular forms as the opera and merged with the cantata and the dialogue.
Its rise started with the Primo libro di Madrigali of Philippe Verdelot, published in 1533 in Venice, which was the first book of madrigals at all. It was a great success and the form spread rapidly, first in Italy and up to the end of the century everywhere in Europe. Especially in England the madrigal was highly appreciated since the publication of Nicholas Yonge's Musica Transalpina in 1588, a collection of Italian madrigals with translated texts and started a madrigal-culture of its own.
Late madrigalists were particularly ingenious with so-called "madrigalisms" -- passages in which the music assigned to a particular word expresses its meaning, for example, setting riso (smile) to a passage of quick, running notes which imitate laughter, or sospiro (sigh) to a note which falls to the note below. The most important of them are certainly Claudio Gesualdo and Claudio Monteverdi, who integrated in 1605 the basso continuo into the form and composed the book Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love), probably the perfection of the form.
Composers of soon madrigals
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Crosswords: Madrigal |
| English words defined with "madrigal": Canzone ♦ Part song. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Madrigal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (madrigal), Portuguese (maecenas), Romanian (madrigal), Serbo-Croatian (madrigal), Spanish (madrigal), Swedish (madrigal). |
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Political Economy | Colombia | Over 50 extradition cases are pending approval from the Colombian Supreme Court, among them Fabio Ochoa and Alejandro Bernal Madrigal, considered to be two of the most important drug kingpins in Colombia. (references) |
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| "Madrigal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.23% of the time. "Madrigal" is used about 103 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.23% | 95 | 33,629 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.77% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 103 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "madrigal" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Madrigal | Last name | 5,000 | 2,562 |
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Beginning with "madrigal": madrigal-wise. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
madrigal | 78 |
dinner madrigal | 9 |
alejandro madrigal | 8 |
al madrigal | 6 |
madrigal pancho | 6 |
madrigal singer | 5 |
madrigal philippine singer | 5 |
audio madrigal | 4 |
madrigal music | 4 |
madrigal planning visual | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "madrigal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | мадригал. (various references) | |
German | madrigal, das Madrigal. (various references) | |
Greek | μαδριγάλιο, λυρικό άσμα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pásztordal (pastoral), madrigál. (various references) | |
Italian | madrigale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, mania, maniac, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, mutton, sailor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マドリガル . (various references) | |
Manx | ronniaght (versification). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adrigalmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | madri. (various references) | |
Romanian | madrigal. (various references) | |
Russian | мадригал. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | madrigal. (various references) | |
Spanish | madrigal. (various references) | |
Swedish | madrigal. (various references) | |
Turkish | aşk şiiri. (various references) | |
Ukranian | мадригал. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | matricalis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "madrigal": madrigalian, madrigalist, madrigalists, madrigals. (additional references) | |
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"Madrigal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amadigi, madgrigal, madregali, madrical, madrigale, madrigalien, Maragall, margial, Matrigel, zadruga. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "madrigal" (pronounced ma"drugul) |
| 4 | -u g u l | conjugal. |
| 3 | -g u l | algal, angle, antifungal, bagel, bangle, beagle, bedraggle, boggle, Bogle, boondoggle, bugle, centrifugal, commingle, dangle, Dingle, disentangle, eagle, entangle, extralegal, finagle, frugal, fungal, gaggle, giggle, goggle, gurgle, haggle, illegal, Ingle, intermingle, jangle, jiggle, jingle, juggle, jungle, Kugel, legal, Mangel, mangle, milligal, mingle, mogul, mongol, Ogle, paralegal, prodigal, rectangle, regal, shingle, single, smuggle, snuggle, Spangle, Spiegel, squiggle, straggle, strangle, struggle, swingle, tangle, tingle, toggle, triangle, untangle, wangle, wiggle, wrangle, wriggle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-l-m-r" | |
-1 letter: admiral, diagram. | |
-2 letters: aramid, argali, radial. | |
-3 letters: agria, alarm, algid, amiga, argal, argil, damar, drail, drama, glair, graal, grail, grama, laari, laird, lamia, liard, lidar, malar, maria. | |
-4 letters: agar, agma, alar, alga, alma, amia, amid, amir, aria, arid, aril, dial, dirl, drag, dram, gadi, gala, gama, gild, gird, girl, glad, glia, glim, grad, gram, grid, grim, laid, lair, lama, lard, lari, liar, lima, lira, maar, magi, maid, mail, mair, marl, mild, raga, ragi, raia, raid, rail, rami, rial. | |
-5 letters: aal, aga, aid, ail, aim, air, ala, ama, ami, arm, dag, dal, dam, dig, dim, gad, gal, gam, gar, gid, lad, lag, lam, lar, lid, mad, mag, mar, mid, mig, mil, mir, rad, rag, ram, ria, rid, rig, rim. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-i-l-m-r" | |
+1 letter: madrigals. | |
+2 letters: gradualism. | |
+3 letters: gradualisms, madrigalian, madrigalist. | |
+4 letters: diagrammable, madrigalists, marginalized. | |
+5 letters: blackguardism, demographical, dramaturgical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 64 72 69 67 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.. .-. .. --. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100100 01110010 01101001 01100111 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a d r i g a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0064 0072 0069 0067 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767708475736778 |
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