bar·ca·role

also bar·ca·rolle (bär′kə-rōl′)

1. A Venetian gondolier's song with a rhythm suggestive of rowing.

2. A composition imitating a Venetian gondolier's song.

[French, from Italian barcaruola, from barcaruolo, gondolier, from barca, boat, from Latin; see bark³.]

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barcarole

(ˈbɑːkəˌrəʊl; -ˌrɒl; ˌbɑːkəˈrəʊl) or

barcarolle

1. (Classical Music) a Venetian boat song in a time of six or twelve quaver beats to the bar

2. (Classical Music) an instrumental composition resembling this

[C18: from French, from Italian barcarola, from barcaruolo boatman, from barca boat; see barque]

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bar•ca•role

or bar•ca•rolle

(ˈbɑr kəˌroʊl)

n.

1. a boating song of the Venetian gondoliers.

2. a piece of music composed in the style of such songs.

[1605–15; < Venetian barcarola boatman's song]

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Noun

barcarole - a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers

barcarolle

song, vocal - a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs"

Translations

barcarola

barcarole

barcarolle [ˌbɑːkəˈrəʊl] N → barcarola f

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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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The tricky task of accompanying Mracek, an incarnation of the Czech violin tradition, and a Czech orchestra, performing a purely Czech programme, was undertaken by the British conductor James Judd, who did manage to negotiate the rhythmically delicate passages of the Mazurek and the first and final movements of the Concerto yet failed to set the Romance swinging in the barcarole way, while in the Concerto he staked his bets on rustically loaded rhythms (the opening bars of the first movement), which are not even audible in older recordings of the piece.

Jan Mracek: Antonin Dvorak

"The Nocturne" is a lovely slow piece written in 6/8 using dotted rhythms to create a rocking, lolling feeling, similar to a barcarole. The last pieces are more attention getting pieces.

Menotti: Poemetti for the piano, 12 Pieces for Children

" The most successful violinist of modern times, at the Arena on Sunday, performs wellknown Italian melodies on the album, including O Sole Mio, Volare and Santa Lucia, as well as the famous Barcarole by Jacques enbach, the Lagoon Waltz by Johann Strauss and the Toselli Serenade.

Dutch maestro turns his bow to the Italian classics; GORDON BARR previews Andre Rieu's show at the Metro Radio Arena this Sunday

The most successful violinist of modern times, at the Arena on Sunday, performs well-known Italian melodies on the album, including O sole mio, Volare and Santa Lucia, as well as the famous Barcarole by Jacques Offenbach, the Lagoon Waltz by Johann Strauss and the Toselli Serenade.

Andre Rieu shows his romantic side ahead of his Metro Radio Arena concert; Andre Rieu is at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle on Sunday on the back of his Love in Venice album

Among them the arpeggiated ascent covering the entire range of the piano in the passage labeled A, the descending tritone passage drafted in B, the lilting, chromatically ascending Barcarole figures seen in E, or the chromatically ascending run shown in the passage labeled F.

Paul Wittgenstein's voice and Richard Strauss's music: discovering the musical dialogue between composer and performer: to Daniel Ng Yat Chiu (1937-2013) for his generous and ongoing support of music and music research

This undated Neapolitan barcarole was translated into Italian by Teodoro Cottrau in 1848, before Italy was politically unified as a nation.

Teaching Italy through its music. the meaning of music in Italian cultural history

The Dickson Experimental Sound Film, as archivists now call it, depicts Dickson himself playing a light operatic barcarole on the violin, while two male Edison employees dance together in accompaniment.

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