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Song line noted in plain boating tune
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barcarolle
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers. 2 A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A barcarole (from French , also barcarolle ; originally, Italian barcarola or barcaruola , from barca 'boat' ) is a folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers , or a piece of music composed in that style. In classical music , two of the most famous barcaroles ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers [syn: barcarole ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barcarolle \Bar"ca*rolle\, n. [F. barcarolle, fr. It. barcaruola, fr. barca bark, barge.] (Mus.) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers. A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.
Usage examples of barcarolle.
They are not singing barcarolles or ballads about the Lorely and her fated lovers, but simply trolling any nonsense that comes into their heads in time to the dancing of the water and the rhythm of their swimming.
She was playing Barcarolle when I reached my suite and found Mary waiting.
She was billed and announced as "The Music-Box Dancer" and performed atop the pista's padded curbing, doing several circuits of the ring, almost entirely en pointe, the way music-box dolls did, while cimbalist Elemér played, solo, a very creditable imitation of a music box tinkling one of Offenbach's barcarolles.
In no way wearied by his sallies on the road, he was in the drawing-room before any of us, and I heard him at the piano while I was yet looking after my housekeeping, singing refrains of barcarolles and drinking songs, Italian and German, by the score.