canzonet

Example Sentences

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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

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

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)

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.

With your leave, I will try a canzonet I learned in London.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.