Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short lighthearted air or song.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little or short song, shorter and less elaborate than the aria of oratorio or opera.
- noun In music, a short concerted air; a madrigal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A short song, in one or more parts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A short
song , now especially one which is light and breezy.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Longavile, the "canzonet" of Biron, and the far lovelier love-song of
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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I sometimes saw her, the adorable girl who sat quietly sewing at my table, wrapped in her meditations; the faint light from my window fell upon her and was reflected back in silvery rays from her thick black hair; sometimes I heard her young laughter, or the rich tones of her voice singing some canzonet that she composed without effort.
The Magic Skin 2007
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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.
The Newcomes 2006
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You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the accent: let me supervise the canzonet.
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But the didactic ballad and the canzonet were then extensively practised, and, with the fugitive poetry of Peele, Marlowe,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various
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You find not the apostrophas, and so miss the accent: let me supervise the canzonet.
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He swung away, singing a canzonet, and quickly vanished, while
The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1911
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Indeed, it was a common thing then, in places where friend met friend, for one that had a voice to read somewhat aloud for the delectation of the others, whether a pleasant tale in prose or a poetic canzonet.
The God of Love 1898
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The _sestina_, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889
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He got to know fairly well Mendelssohn's canzonet quartet and
Cardinal Newman as a Musician Edward Bellasis 1887
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