canzonetn.
/kanzəʊˈnɛt/ A little or short song; a vocal solo in more than one movement; now usually, a short song of a light and airy character.
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1593 T. Morley (title) Canzonets. Or little short songs to three voyces.
1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 180 Canzonets, that is little shorte songs..which is in composition of the musick a counterfet of the Madrigal.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 291 The lakes reechoing their continual canzonets and the like.
1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xii. 199 The common Song or Canzonette.
1792 S. Rogers Ital. Song 118 The canzonet and roundelay Sung in the silent greenwood shade.
1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) iv. 77 A rogue of canzonets and serenades.
1880 W. H. Cummings in Grove Dict. Music I. 306 Haydn has left us some admirable canzonets grave and gay; for example, ‘She never told her love’.
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