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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A heavily revised version of this madrigal was included in Morley's collection.
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Gesualdo's later madrigals, however fascinating their scent of decadence, are an evolutionary dead end.
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In practice this meant medieval mystery plays at York, madrigals on the river at Cambridge, and the Edinburgh Festival.
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Strange the tricks that life plays, I mused as I drove home, popping the tape of madrigals into the player.
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The madrigal was polyphonic but not purely polyphonic.
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The distinction, if any, was in the less frivolous nature and superior literary quality of the madrigal texts.
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The movement of the tide is well illustrated by the successive books of Monteverdi's madrigals.
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The verse sounds like a madrigal , the chorus like a party.