Jabarkan Contoh musik dari Madrigal

Madrigal Tahap 1: Arcadelt, Ahime, dov'e bel viso, 1538

Madrigal Tahap 2 (prima practica): Willaert, Aspro core e selvaggio, pertengahan 1540-an

Madrigal Tahap 3 (seconda practica): Gesualdo, Io parto e non piu dissi, 1590–1611

Madrigal Tahap 4: Caccini, Perfidissimo volto, 1602

Madrigal Tahap 5: Monteverdi, Il Combatimento di Tancredi et Clorinda, 1624

Madrigal Inggris: Weelkes, O Care, thou wilt despatch me, akhir abad ke-16/awal abad ke-17

Peniruan Madrigal Inggris abad kesembilan belas: "Brightly dawns our wedding day" dari opera komik Gilbert dan Sullivan, The Mikado (1885)

James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Massimo Ossi, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: "Madrigal", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed December 30, 2007) (subscription access)

Kurt von Fischer et al.: "Madrigal", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed November 30, 2008) (subscription access)

James Haar, Anthony Newcomb, Glenn Watkins, Nigel Fortune, Joseph Kerman, Jerome Roche: "Madrigal", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1561591742

Denis Arnold, Emma Wakelin. "Madrigal." In The Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Alison Latham. Oxford Music Online. Accessed November 28, 2008.

Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0393095304

Alfred Einstein, The Italian Madrigal. Three volumes. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1949. ISBN 0-691-09112-9

Allan W. Atlas, Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400–1600. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 1998. ISBN 0-393-97169-4

Howard Mayer Brown, Music in the Renaissance. Prentice Hall History of Music Series. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey; Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976. ISBN 0-13-608497-4

The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, ed. Don Randel. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1986. ISBN 0674615255

Giovanni Artusi, Della imperfezioni della moderna musica, tr. Oliver Strunk, in Source Readings in Music History. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1950.

Iain Fenlon and James Haar: The Italian Madrigal in the Early 16th Century: Sources and Interpretation. Cambridge, 1988