villottan.
/vᵻˈlɒtə/ A type of villanella, originating in northern Italy.
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1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 446/2 Villotte (It.). The name given to the first secular pieces in harmony after the rules of counterpoint were fixed.
1926 C. Gray in C. Gray & P. Heseltine Carlo Gesualdo i. 10 They would spend whole nights out in the bay [of Naples], singing villotte, and madrigals.
1942 Bull. Amer. Musicological Soc. Apr. 9 The period of the villota is dated back by Torrefranca..to the first half of the 15th century... The theory is founded..chiefly upon a group of eleven villote..now preserved in the Marciana in Venice.
1958 Listener 14 Aug. 250/3 The canzonetta, villotta, carnival songs, and so on which are all offshoots of the madrigal.
1980 Early Music 8 104/2 The Libro primo contains a wide variety of text forms including the madrigal, villotta, canzone, and ballata-madrigal.
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