Examples of “madrigal” in a Sentence

noun A short song for several unaccompanied voices, each singing an independent line, usually setting a secular poem about love or nature. The form flourished in Italy and England in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

• The choir closed with a madrigal by Thomas Weelkes.
• Madrigals are sung one voice to a part, with no instruments.
• He wrote madrigals in the Italian manner.