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

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

term

TERM

for the songs sung by the Venetian gondoliers, and hence for an instrumental or vocal

composition

, generally in 6-8

time

TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme,
hour
- HOUR
, Dan. time; from the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
TIME, STANDARD

, written in

imitation

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

of their characteristic

rhythm

RHYTHM (
Greek
- GREEK
- GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND
pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

.

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