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2 unusual facts about madrigal


Kilvington Grammar School

Kilvington Grammar School has a diverse music culture, which includes the Kilvington Orchestra, Kilvington Madrigals, Kilvington Choir, String Orchestra and many chamber and instrumental ensembles.

Vaucluse College

Students of Vaucluse were also able to participate in a range of additional activities including three choirs (Vaucluse College Choir, Senior College Choir & Madrigal Group), Vaucluse Debating Team, Wind Orchestra, Tennis and Taekwondo.


1593 in music

Franco-Flemish Renaissance master Orlande de Lassus composed The Tears of Saint Peter (1593–1594), dedicated to Pope Clement VIII: it was the final work of Lassus and considered, by some, the absolute summit of the 16th-century Italian madrigal.

Al Madrigal

A native of San Francisco, California, Madrigal grew up in the city's Inner Sunset District, where his neighbors included future comedians Mike Pritchard, Margaret Cho and the Meehan Brothers.

Alabang–Zapote Road

It then crosses into the Madrigal Business Park and Alabang Town Center intersecting with Madrigal Avenue and Acacia Avenue.

Alfonso Ferrabosco

Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder (1543–1588), Italian composer mainly active in England, and instrumental in bringing the Italian madrigal there; eldest son of Domenico Ferrabosco

Colca Canyon

Within the province of Caylloma it is known as the "Colca Valley" between Callalli and Pinchollo/Madrigal.

Costa Mesa High School

In the previous years the Madrigal Choir also performed with American Idol finalist, Clay Aiken.

Diego Madrigal

Madrigal made his Primera debut for UCR in January 2009 and scored his first Primera goal in March of that year.

Ellis Gibbons

Ellis Gibbons was evidently counted as having promise by his contemporaries: at the age of 28 he became the only composer, other than the editor Thomas Morley himself, to contribute two madrigals to The Triumphs of Oriana, a collection of 25 madrigals published in 1601, although the American musicologist Joseph Kerman (in his 1962 comparative study of the English madrigal) states that "possibly one of the two is by Edward Gibbons."

Ercole Pasquini

A spiritual madrigal M'empio gli occhi di pianto, to a text by Angelo Grillo, appeared in 1604, and the final work, published after his death, is Jesu decus angelicum for four voices and organ.

Inganno

Examples include numerous works by Girolamo Frescobaldi (for instance, Fantasia seconda of 1608) and ricercares attributed to Jacques Brunel (the first recorded systematic use of inganno); it has been suggested by scholar Roland Jackson that the technique played an important part in the development of the late Italian madrigal, including the famous works of Carlo Gesualdo.

Jackson of Exeter

Jackson composed the operas The Lord of the Manor (1780, libretto by John Burgoyne) and Metamorphoses (1783), as well as several odes (Warton's Ode to Fancy, Pope's The Dying Christian to His Soul, and Lycidas) and a large number of songs, canzonets, madrigals, pastorals, hymns, anthems, sonatas for harpsichord, and church services.

Jacques Arcadelt

Antoine Gardano became the primary Italian publisher for Arcadelt, although the competing Venetian publishing house of Scotto brought out one of his madrigal books as well.

Jester of Columbia

In addition to publishing the magazine, the group puts on comedy events, containing sketches, improv comedy, and an event reminiscent of the antics of Andy Kaufmann, where an audience was forced to watch other students eat dinner for 30 minutes while listening to madrigals.

John Liptrot Hatton

On his return he became conductor of the Glee and Madrigal Union, and from about 1853 was engaged at the Princess's Theatre, London to provide and conduct the music for Charles Kean's Shakespearean revivals.

La Venexiana

La Venexiana, taking its name from an anonymous comedy La Venexiana (play) ("The Venetian Girl" c.1537) was created to focus on the core 4 and 5 voice madrigal repertory of Sigismondo d'India, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Luca Marenzio, Barbara Strozzi, Gesualdo da Venosa and Claudio Monteverdi.

Lady D'Arbanville

"Lady D'Arbanville" has a madrigal sound, and was written about Stevens' former girlfriend, Patti D'Arbanville, metaphorically laying her to rest.

László Passuth

Among his some 40 novels are also Joan of Naples (1940), based on the life of the medieval queen, Joan I, and Madrigal (1968), a novel around the life of composer Carlo Gesualdo.

Luca Marenzio

James Chater, Luca Marenzio and the Italian Madrigal, 1577-1593. Two volumes.

Madrigal dinner

A Madrigal Dinner or Madrigal Feast is an American form of dinner theater often held by schools and church groups during the Christmas season.

Although the Boar's Head Carol is the most popular madrigal song to announce the main course, the most popular meat for the main course is chicken, often specifically Cornish game hen.

Maistre Jhan

James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Massimo Ossi, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: "Madrigal", Grove Music Online, ed.

Marietta Robusti

This portrait depicts Marietta posed before a harpsichord, holding a musical text that has been identified as a madrigal by Philippe Verdelot, "Madonna per voi ardo".

Mark Anthony Carpio

That same year (1992), he was invited to be a part of the Philippine Madrigal Singers (also known as the Madz), where he sang as Second Tenor until 2001.

Mascherata

Orlande de Lassus was considered the master of mascheratas, and he wrote many of his pieces (mostly madrigals) while in Rome, which saw the birth of madrigals, and more specifically mascheratas.

Mungonzazal Janshindulam

From 1999 to 2003 she was a teaching assistant at the Musikhochschule in Dortmund and an accompanist for the Madrigal Choir at the University of Münster.

Music in the Elizabethan era

The music of the late Italian madrigal composers inspired native composers who are now labeled as the English Madrigal School.

Peter Tiboris

The original choral format has expanded to include Madrigal Festivals, a National Wind Ensemble, Vocal Jazz Festivals, National Festival Youth Orchestra, Sweet Adelines, and solo concerts featuring such musicians as Alan Gilbert and Stanley Drucker.

Philippe Verdelot

Susan McClary, Modal Subjectivities: Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal, p. 38-56.

Qallumayu

The confluence with the Colca River is south of the villages Madrigal and Lari.

Salamone Rossi

Rossi also flourished in his composition of more serious madrigals, combining the poetry of the greatest poets of the day (e.g. Guarini, Marino, Rinaldi, and Celiano) with his melodies.

Sonus Quartet

They include a variety of repertoire from original Sonus arrangements of classical pieces such as a 15th century madrigal or a Shostakovich quartet, to popular music from The Cure or Clint Mansell’s Lux Aeterna.

Sure of You

Recognizing that it has been a long time since she took a vacation, the building's landlady, Anna Madrigal, decides to travel to Greece to meet up with her daughter, Mona Ramsey, on the island of Lesbos.

The Chalk Garden

Gladys Cooper (who was also in the 1971 revival) appeared as Mrs. St Maugham, with Siobhán McKenna as Miss Madrigal, Betsy von Furstenberg as Laurel, and Fritz Weaver as Maitland.

The Elizabethan Madrigal Singers

The Elizabethan Madrigal Singers regularly take their music overseas, their most recent tour being to Burgos, Spain, in June 2013.

Thomas East

In 1588 the great collection of Italian madrigals entitled ‘Musica Transalpina’ was published, and became the most important agent in promoting that admiration for the madrigal form as used by the Italians which resulted in the foundation of the splendid school of English madrigalists.

Vicente Madrigal

She was responsible for the purchase of the Madrigal property where the old Jai Alai fronton used to stand, as well as buildings near her aunts' mansions on Calle Hidalgo, Quiapo, Manila and its adjacent streets.


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