barcarole
noun
a boating song of the Venetian gondoliers.
barcarolle
-
a variation of
barcarole.
Example Sentences
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Shipowner Onassis sang a variation on the Callas theme: "Friends have described me as a sailor," went his barcarolle.
From Time Magazine Archive
"A barcarolle, I declare," said Lord Culduff, entering.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
His tone is very sonorous, his touch singing, and he commands the entire range of nuance from the rippling fioritura of the Chopin barcarolle to the cannon-like thunderings of the A-flat polonaise.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
In "Le Donne Curiose," the gondoliers sing their barcarolle and compel even the cynic of the drama to break out into an enthusiastic exclamation: "Oh, beautiful Venice!"
From A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Gregoriev, Monsieur Rubinstein has brought us a new manuscript—a barcarolle, you said, Anton?—finished to-day, and brought here to be played to me.
From The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter
