canzonet

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The canzonet opens with a long symphony for piano.

From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher

The note to which Byron refers is on the canzonet 'Naö sei quem assella', "Thou hast an eye of tender blue."

From Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Percy sings a Spanish seguidilla, or a German lied, or a French romance, or a Neapolitan canzonet, which, I am bound to say, excites very little attention.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

In lighter vein is the canzonet to the lady who swore by her eyes, a custom which was rather common according to the tales of chivalry so popular shortly before this time.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

Come to these shades, these airs that stir the screen Of whispering branches and their murmurs set To Philomel's enamored canzonet: Choose this for thine own land, thy loved demesne!

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington