noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A song for a small number of unaccompanied voices; from 13th century Italy.
2. 2
   an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form wordnet
3. 3
   A polyphonic song for about six voices, from 16th century Italy.
4. 4
   A short poem, often pastoral, and suitable to be set to music.

Verb

1. 1
   sing madrigals wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

albaanacreonticbaladaballadballadebucolic

Etymology

From Italian madrigale, from Latin mātrīcālis.

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