What is "lauda"

The lauda (Italian pl. laude) or lauda spirituale was the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval era and Renaissance. Laude remained popular into the nineteenth century. The lauda was often associated with Christmas, and so is in part equivalent to the English carol, French noel, Spanish villancico, and like these genres occupies a middle ground between folk and learned lyrics.

Lauda may refer to:

• Lauda (song), a type of medieval and Renaissance Italian song
• Lauda, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, a village in northern Poland
• Lauda Air, an airline based in Schwechat, Austria
• Lauda, a borough of the city of Lauda-Königshofen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany