(n.) A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.
(n.) An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.
Example Sentences:
(1) And now, with The Days of Anna Madrigal , it's all coming to an end.
(2) Handing a newbie the keys to 28 Barbary Lane is one of life's simplest joys – like Mrs Madrigal taping a joint to Mary Ann's door on her first night.
(3) The Brazilian full-back was preparing to take a corner at Villarreal's El Madrigal stadium when the piece of fruit landed on the pitch next to him.
(4) They have also beaten Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid at the 25,000-capacity El Madrigal this season – the former Tottenham striker Roberto Soldado scoring the only goal against Real – and drew 2-2 with Barcelona last month.
(5) Through her friendship with a rich cast of characters, including eccentric marijuana-growing landlady, Anna Madrigal and quiet young gay man Michael Tolliver (known as Mouse), Maupin's sparkling comedy chronicles Mary Ann's adventures in 70s San Francisco.
(6) Nine novels later, Maupin has written The Days of Anna Madrigal – what he claims is the last instalment (he's said that before – please let him be fibbing again).
(7) Luckily, Higgs has found a few hours to spare before rushing off to join his wife for another round of Monteverdi madrigals at the festival that first attracted him to the city in 1949.
(8) Villarreal 1-0 Liverpool: Europa League semi-final – as it happened Read more The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, the nickname adopted by Villarreal as they began their remarkable rise up the ranks in Spain, replaced their traditional pre-match anthem at El Madrigal and helped to create a jovial atmosphere.
(9) It wasn't until many years later that I realised that Hayley Mills's mysterious governess in the 1964 film The Chalk Garden is called Miss Madrigal.
(10) It was born at 6pm on 29 September 1946, and its first cries were a light-hearted guide on How to Listen , a talk on world affairs, Bach harpsichord music, Monteverdi madrigals and a new work by Benjamin Britten .
(11) A moment of silence was held before the match at El Madrigal for the victims of a bus accident in north-east Spain that left at least 13 dead.
(12) Having done most of the damage with a 3-1 first leg win at El Madrigal, Sevilla finished things off at home with a 2-1 victory courtesy of second-half goals from Vicente Iborra and his replacement Denis Suárez.
(13) In his hands was a ceramic yellow submarine, a memento of his time at the Madrigal.
(14) "FC Barcelona wishes to express its complete support and solidarity with our first-team player Dani Alves, following the insults he was subject to from a section of the crowd at El Madrigal on Sunday during the game against Villarreal."
(15) As Mrs Madrigal says: "You didn't choose Barbary Lane.
(16) At El Madrigal they settled for leaning on the midfield covering of the splendid Gilberto and, when that did not suffice, the authority of Lehmann.
(17) Jürgen Klopp’s side will travel to El Madrigal stadium for the first leg on 28 April and host the second at Anfield on 5 May.
(18) Landlady Anna Madrigal's name was my own invention, intended to evoke the pleasant rhythm of Mrs Miniver , a book I revered and had initially been serialised to great success in the Times.
(19) • The Days of Anna Madrigal is published by Doubleday.
(20) They have made a lot of good decisions to be here and we shouldn’t hope for the wrong decisions tomorrow.” Klopp was not in the mood to wallow in that remarkable quarter-final victory when he appeared at El Madrigal Stadium on Wednesday.
Polyphonic
Definition:
(a.) Having a multiplicity of sounds.
(a.) Characterized by polyphony; as, Assyrian polyphonic characters.
(a.) Consisting of several tone series, or melodic parts, progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint; contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; -- opposed to homophonic, or monodic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The power of polyphonic vocal in a reverberant space – it’s simple and transcendent.
(2) Greece is and must remain a democratic, well-ruled, tolerant and polyphonic society which claims an equal place in Europe.
(3) We can absorb written stuff in different ways, and in polyphonic ways.
(4) What we really desire is the polyphonic cacophony of real democracy, the one we could hear in the post-punk explosion.
(5) Although house music was driven by outdated electronic technology, principally Roland drum machines and rudimentary polyphonic synthesisers, Knuckles's intentions revealed him as someone more ambitious than the average bedroom producer.
(6) In the second half, as the story neared its climax, the structure was cleared, and the final scenes played out under arc lights on the vast amphitheatre of the Barbican stage , with each Johan and Marianne shadowing each other – sometimes chanting the text in unison, sometimes splintering polyphonically into pairs or groups.
(7) 2) Continuous adventitious lung sounds in asthmatic patients were divided into monophonic tones and polyphonic tones, according to sound spectrographic findings.
(8) Hecker turned these polyphonic templates into fresh scores, then gave them to the Icelandic Choir Ensemble at a recording session in Reykjavík, with instructions to “imagine you’re Chewbacca and you have a saxophone, and you just drunk 8,000 litres of codeine – now sing 10 times slower than that.” The aim was to drain their voices of any expression – “to become, like, dead, basically.” Some of the choir were hungover.
(9) But the ravages of deindustrialisation only encouraged Nyman to hook up with Christopher Monks, artistic director of the Armonico Consort – a polyphonic choral group – to bring Hillfields and Monteverdi together: this month, children from Frederick Bird will be involved in a project called Monteverdi's Flying Circus, singing the Ave Maris Stella from the Italian master's 1610 Vespers.
(10) This pool of virtuoso musicians has seeded a music scene that’s the envy of much larger cities, producing acts such as Norah Jones, the Polyphonic Spree, Neon Indian and Midlake .
(11) Everywhere you went in Paris during the revolt in Tunisia , portable televisions blared at top volume in shops, takeaways and cafes, broadcasting a polyglot, polyphonic babble from Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya and the French-speaking channels from the Maghreb.
(12) The origin of the polyphonic tones was unknown, but they were also relatively well transmitted to the neck over the trachea.