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BARCAROLE, or BARCAROLLE (Ital. barcaruola, a boat-song)

BARCAROLE, or BARCAROLLE (Ital. barcaruola, a See also:
BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)
boat-See also:
SONG
song) , properly a musical See also:

TERM

term for the songs sung by the Venetian gondoliers, and hence for an instrumental or vocal See also:

composition, generally in 6-8 See also:

time, written in See also:

IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of their characteristic See also:

RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm .

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