Villotte
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q1092924
Library of congress:
sh2002004319
Sources of Information
- New Harvard dict. of mus.(Vocal music popular in Venice and Padua during the early 16th century; 4 voices, refrain, includes nonsense syllables lilolela; some are quodlibets of popular song texts and tunes)
Wikipedia description:
Villotta (pl. villotte) is a type of popular song found mainly in Northern Italy, especially in Friuli. Often using folk music or folk songs in dialect, the structure of the modern villotta entails four hendecasyllabic lines of verse followed by a refrain. Villotte from the sixteenth-century are typically strophic dialect songs that frequently contain nonsense syllables and passages in triple time.
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