canzonet

Example Sentences

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The sestina, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

He takes his lute and sings an Italian canzonet which has the desired effect.

From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

With a canzonet and tabor, Yea, with ho-ho-ho! and our hi-hi-hi!

From Soldier Songs and Love Songs by Laidlaw, A. H. (Alexander Hamilton)

How we sang together the old-fashioned canzonet, 'Love in thine eyes forever plays'?

From A Romance of the Republic by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

Young Love's for us a farce that's played; Light canzonet and serenade No more may tempt us; Gray hairs but ill accord with dreams; From aught but sour didactic themes Our years exempt us.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert