tenzone

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Ono seems rather like Echo, and without the last two lines of the chorus one could very well imagine her keeping up her tenzone with

"Noh", or, Accomplishment 1916
Among the kind of songs cultivated by these singers were love songs, canzonets, chansons; serenade -- that is, an evening song; auberde, or day song; servantes, written to extol the goodness of princes; tenzone, quarrelsome or contemptuous songs; and roundelays, terminated forever with the same refrain.

A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874