A song for two or three unaccompanied voices, developed in Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
A short poem, often about love, suitable for being set to music.
A polyphonic song using a vernacular text and written for four to six voices, developed in Italy in the 16th century and popular in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
A part song.
A polyphonic song using a vernacular text and written for four to six voices, developed in Italy in the 16th century and popular in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
A part song.
[Italian madrigale, probably from dialectal madregal, simple, from Late Latin mātrīcālis, invented, original, from Latin, of the womb, from mātrīx, mātrīc-, womb, from māter, mātr-, mother; see mater.] mad'ri·gal·ist n.
[mad-ri-guh-list] 
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