{"id":18560,"date":"2018-12-06T08:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18560"},"modified":"2018-12-06T08:14:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:14:49","slug":"word-of-the-day-433","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/06\/word-of-the-day-433\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Madrigal<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<b>madrigal<\/b>\u00a0is a\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Secular\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secular\">secular<\/a>\u00a0vocal music composition of the\u00a0<a title=\"Renaissance music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renaissance_music\">Renaissance<\/a>\u00a0and early\u00a0<a title=\"Baroque music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baroque_music\">Baroque<\/a>\u00a0eras. Traditionally,\u00a0<a title=\"Polyphony\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polyphony\">polyphonic<\/a>\u00a0madrigals are\u00a0<a title=\"Accompaniment\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Accompaniment\">unaccompanied<\/a>; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six. It is quite distinct from the\u00a0<a title=\"Madrigal (Trecento)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madrigal_(Trecento)\">Italian Trecento madrigal<\/a>\u00a0of the late 13th and 14th centuries, with which it shares only the name. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madrigal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slaughterhouse-Five\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Slaughter-House Five<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And now there was an acrimonious madrigal, with parts sung in all quarters of the [railroad] car. Nearly everyone, seemingly, had an atrocity story of something Billy Pilgrim had done to him in his sleep. Everybody told Billy Pilgrim to keep the hell away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrigal: A\u00a0madrigal\u00a0is a\u00a0secular\u00a0vocal music composition of the\u00a0Renaissance\u00a0and early\u00a0Baroque\u00a0eras. Traditionally,\u00a0polyphonic\u00a0madrigals are\u00a0unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six. It is quite distinct from the\u00a0Italian Trecento madrigal\u00a0of the late 13th and 14th centuries, with which it shares only the name. [Wikipedia] Noted in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/06\/word-of-the-day-433\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18562,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18560\/revisions\/18562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}