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canzonet
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Definition:a popular Italian secular vocal composition that originated around 1560. Earlier versions were somewhat like a madrigal but lighter in style—but by the 18th century, especially as it moved outside of Italy, the term came to mean a song for voice and accompaniment, usually in a light secular style.In its earliest form, the canzonetta was closely related to a popular Neapolitan form, the villanella. The songs were always secular, and generally involved pastoral, irreverent, or erotic subjects. The rhyme and stanza schemes of the poems varied but always included a final "punch line." Typically the early canzonetta was for three unaccompanied voices, moved quickly, and shunned contrapuntal complexity, though it often involved animated cross-rhythms. It was fun to sing, hugely popular, and quickly caught on throughout Italy, paralleling the madrigal, with which it later began to interact. The earliest books of canzonettas were published by Giovanni Ferretti in 1567 and Girolamo Conversi in 1572.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealikehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/' rel='noopener external ' target='_blank'>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/Need a music sample that better illustrates this style - with vocals!!sound sample: Liszt, Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 - 3. Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa (sample only)performed by Roberto Poli, license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/' rel='noopener external ' target='_blank'>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
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I [...] do intend to recount one hundred Novels or Fables or Parables or Stories, as we may please to call them, which were recounted in ten days by an honourable company of seven ladies and three young men in the time of the late mortal pestilence, as also some canzonets sung by the said ladies for their delectation.
Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron, Volume 1.
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Rosamond could also sing “Black-eyed Susan” with effect, or Haydn’s canzonets, or “Voi, che sapete,” or “Batti, batti”— she only wanted to know what her audience liked.George Eliot. Middlemarch
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Adèle sang the canzonette tunefully enough, and with the naïveté of her age.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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