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 P. Jones
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 Ernest Hartley Coleridge
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 Burton Egbert Stevenson
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 Walter W. Greg
Ah! who will take the bass parts in my canzonet now, I should like to know?
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
