Definition of frottola in English:
frottola
nounPlural frottole ˈfrɒtələˈfrädələ
Music A form of Italian comic or amorous song, especially from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Example sentencesExamples
- The melodic line of the typical frottola has small range and many repeated notes.
- He remained in business for the next twenty years, printing volumes of French chansons, Italian frottole, and Latin masses and motets.
- Some of the frottole were printed with text in all vopices, suggesting fully vocal performance, a previously unknown practice in Italian Renaissance music.
- The student will have learned that during this period, four-part frottole, chanson, and lieder are often performed as voice and lute duets.
- The next evolutionary step was the Neapolitan villanella, which differed from the frottola in being unaccompanied.
Origin
Italian, literally 'fib, tall story'.