Madrigal

Noun

 * 1)  a song for a small number of unaccompanied voices; from 13th century Italy
 * 2)  a polyphonic song for about six voices, from 16th century Italy
 * 3) a short poem, often pastoral, and suitable to be set to music

Thesaurus
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canso, cantata, chanson, choral singing, chorus, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, glee, haiku, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigaletto, monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, oratorio, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, unison, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay

Etymology
From madrigale:, from  matricalis:.

Translations

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Noun

 * 1) madrigal

Etymology
From madrigale:, from  matricalis:.