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barcarole

Song of the type sung by Venetian gondoliers. The barcarole is always in moderate duple time (6/8 or 12/8), with a swaying rhythm. Instrumental barcaroles also exist, for example Chopin's Barcarolle (1846).



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In no way wearied by his sallies on the road, he was in the drawing-room before any of us; and I heard him at the piano while I was yet looking after my housekeeping, singing refrains of barcaroles and drinking songs, Italian and German, by the score.
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