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Barcarolle

noun
1.
A boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers.  Synonym: barcarole.






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"Barcarolle" Quotes from Famous Books



... her geese into the yard, the pigeons nestled in their leafy coverts high among the elm arches, and the solemn serenity of coming summer night stole with velvet tread over the scene, silencing all things save the silvery barcarolle of the falling water, and the sweet, lonely vesper hymn of a whippoorwill, half hidden ...
— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

... Beethoven's C minor concerto, a valse-caprice, a ballade, four sketches, a "Bal Masque" Waltz, a Children's Carnival and Children's Album, her concerto in C sharp minor, a transcription of Richard Strauss's "Serenade," five pieces (Barcarolle, Menuet Italien, Danse des Fleurs, Scottish Legend, Gavotte Fantastique), and a set of six duets entitled "Summer Dreams." For violin and piano, besides the two works already mentioned, are three pieces, "La Captive" (G string), "Berceuse," ...
— Woman's Work in Music • Arthur Elson

... of Hoffmann, Opera House, with Mother. Good performance. First and third acts excellent; second ("Barcarolle" act) poor. Orchestra superb. Felice Lyne, Pollock, Victoria Fer—artistes of great promise. Renaud ...
— War Letters of a Public-School Boy • Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

... Monsieur Rubinstein has brought us a new manuscript—a barcarolle, you said, Anton?—finished to-day, and brought here to be played to me. He writes a clear hand. Sit down, then, and let us hear ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter



Words linked to "Barcarolle" :   barcarole, song, vocal



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