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strambotto

A form of verse used by the composers of frottole in the 15th–16th centuries. It had eight lines (ottava rima), the first six rhyming alternately and the last two consecutively. In the strambotto siciliano all eight lines rhyme alternately.
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I was particularly taken with Bonnie Blackburn's elegant essay tracing the derivation of a French poem, set to music by Thomas Crequillon and published in 1551 as "Si Salamandre en flamme vit," from an earlier strambotto by the Italian Serafino Aquilano (published in 1502).
Musicologia humana: Studies in Honor of Warren and Ursula Kirkendale by Ongaro, Giulio M. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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