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  • Deep Dives
    • 2024-2025 Concerts >
      • William Byrd: Angelical and Divine
      • Heinrich Schütz: The Orpheus of the 17th Century
      • George Frideric Handel: Messiah
      • Samuel Scheidt: The Art of Variation
      • Ludwig Senfl: A Gifted Imagination
      • Claudio Monteverdi: A New Manner of Composing
      • J.S. Bach: Bach Around Thirty
    • Donate today!
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  • Who we are and What we do
    • Board of Directors and Staff
    • Mission Statement
  • Our Ensembles
    • Sonoma Bach Choir
    • Circa 1600
    • Green Mountain Consort
    • Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
  • Support
    • Donate
    • Sponsor a Singer!
    • Escrip & Amazon Smile
  • Resources
    • Virtual Offerings - Archive >
      • The Choir Loft
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      • Adventures in Sightsinging
      • Madrigal Mondays
      • Chorale Wednesdays
      • Motet Fridays
      • Virtual Recording Projects
      • Virtual Concerts >
        • Live Oak Baroque Orchestra
        • Music for these Distracted Times - Barefoot All-Stars
        • Agave Baroque American Originals
        • Bach's Long Walk to Lübeck - Anne Laver, organ
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Madrigal Mondays
Some people claim that they don't like madrigals. I've found that in most instances, this is because they think of them as a light, fa-la-la kind of ditty. But these aren't really madrigals at all. They're fun, but not deep. The real thing started in Italy in the first quarter of the 16th-century, joining substantive poetry with serious music, a true art-form which blossomed over the course of the century to be an expressive language of incredible range and capacity to express human emotion on a variety of levels and subjects.

At the beginning of each week, we will update our website with a new madrigal and we will try to include a few notes about each piece and why we think it's great--worthy of study and listening and singing.  Then (as with the Chorales and Motets) it'll be up to you to learn your part and sing along, thus absorbing and internalizing and--
​in a sense--
​becoming part of each piece.
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Archive
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As Vesta was - Thomas Weelkes
Audite Nova - Orlande di Lassus
Aura ch'errando - Luzzasco Luzzaschi
Aura Soave - Luzzasco Luzzaschi
Basciami mille volte - Luca Marenzio
Chiome d'oro - Claudio Monteverdi
Ciaccona
Ciacona - Dietrich Buxtehude
Come Blessed Bird - Edward Johnson
Con che soavità - Claudio Monteverdi
Cruda Amarilli - Giaches de Wert
Crudel, acerba et inexorabil morte - Luca Marenzio
Dido's Lament - Henry Purcell
Di pensier in pensier - Orlande de Lassus
Die Narren - Wolfgang Schmeltzl
Dieu! Qu'il la fait bon regarder - Claude Debussy
Dirait-on - Morten Lauridsen
Dolce Spirto d'amore - Gesualdo
Draw on Sweet Night - John Wilbye
Ein Henlein weiß' - Antonio Scandello
El Fuego - Mateo Flecha the Elder
El Grillo - Josquin Deprez
Feritevi - Heinrich Schütz
Fuggito e'l sonno - Luca Marenzio
Gloucestershire Wassail - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Hark ye lovely saints above - Thomas Weelkes
Hector the Hero
Hor che'l ciel e la terra - Claudio Monteverdi
I vaghi fiori - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Ihr Brüder, lieben Brüder mein - Johann Hermann Schein
Il Ballo - Claudio Monteverdi
Il bianco e dolce cigno by Jacob Arcadelt
Introit - Requiem - Duruflé
It is my well beloved's voice - Thomas Tomkins
Lasciatemi morire - Claudio Monteverdi
La Bomba By Mateo Flecha el Viejo
La mia doglia s'avanza - Pomponio Nenna
Lamento della Ninfa - Claudio Monteverdi
Like Two Proud Armies - Thomas Weelkes
Lirum bililirum - Rossino Mantovano
Ma fin est mon commencement - Guillaume de Machaut
Mein Schifflein - Johann Hermann Schein
Non più guerra - Claudio Monteverdi
Non Vidi Mai - Luca Marenzio
Nova Angeletta - Luca Marenzio
O dolcezz' amarissime d'amore - Luzzasco Luzzaschi
O Primavera - Claudio Monteverdi
O Primavera - Giaches de Wert
O voi che sospirate - Luca Marenzio
Prelude and Fugue in D Major - J.S. Bach
Qual Mormorio Soave - Luca Marenzio
Qual vive salamandra - Luca Marenzio - Sweelinck
Quivi sospiri - Luzzasco Luzzaschi
Revecy venir du printemps - Claude Le Jeune
Rutilante in Nocte - Aquilino Coppini
Selve Beate - Heinrich Schütz
Sestina - Claudio Monteverdi
Sfogava con le stelle - Claudio Monteverdi
si ch'io vorrei morire - Claudio Monteverdi
Six Chansons - Paul Hindemith
Sleep, fleshly birth - Robert Ramsey
Solo e Pensoso - Giaches de wert
Stracciami Pur il Core - Claudio Monteverdi
Strana Armonia - Sigismondo d'india
Su la cetra amorosa - Merula
The Coolin' - Samuel Barber
Thomas Vautor
Though Amaryllis Dance in Green - William Byrd
Thule, The Period Of Cosmography - Thomas Weelkes
The Trio Sonata in G - Dieterich Buxtehude
Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La - Peter Philips
Vedi le Valle - Luca Marenzio
Vergine pura - palestrina
Vezzosi Augelli - Giaches de Wert
Volgea L'anima mia - Claudio Monteverdi
Zefiro Torna - Luca Marenzio
Zefiro Torna - Claudio Monteverdi
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