madrigalists

Webster and Stone become the epigrammatists and madrigalists of the press.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

Luca Marenzio and others are still in request: and among the English madrigalists we may mention Wilbye, author of "Flora gave me fairest flowers;" Morley, whose "Now is the month of Maying" is so modern in its air, that it is introduced as the finale of one of our most popular operas, the Duenna; and Michael Este, the composer of the beautiful trio, "How merrily we live that Shepherds be."

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 Various

The polyphony is bold and free, the voices exhibiting an independence perhaps unknown since the days of the madrigalists.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

They may appear in full concentration and lustre, as in _Hamlet_ or _The Faërie Queene_; or in fitful and intermittent flashes, as in scores and hundreds of sonneteers, pamphleteers, playwrights, madrigalists, preachers.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

In madrigalists 'music, we can see various textures combined in an effort to musically depict the text.

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"Thomas Weelkes 'setting of King David's lament for his son Absalom is one of the pinnacles of the late Renaissance, fusing the dramatic flourishes of the Italian madrigalists with the more somber counterpoint of the northern Europeans," explains Crouch.

DePauw University News 2009

The early madrigalists strung four madrigals together to weave a complete story via song.

Unusual Historicals 2008