canzonet

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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

You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the accent; let me supervise the canzonet.

From Canterbury Pieces by Butler, Samuel

He swung away, singing a canzonet, and quickly vanished, while Brendon, overwhelmed by this extraordinary conversation, sat for an hour motionless and deep in thought.

From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden

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

He got to know fairly well Mendelssohn's canzonet quartet and Schumann's pianoforte quintet Op.

From Cardinal Newman as a Musician by Bellasis, Edward