canzonet

Example Sentences

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It was not one of the plaintive lays of his own country, but a lively, blithe Italian canzonet, with trills that sounded like the merry warbling of a lark.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by Jones, P.

I will have a canzonet made, with nothing in it but sirrah; and the burthen shall be, I come.

From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben

The canzonet opens with a long symphony for piano.

From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher

It also belongs to the octave group, and is diversified with a canzonet.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

Ah! who will take the bass parts in my canzonet now, I should like to know?

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm