barcarolles

They are not singing barcarolles or ballads about the Lorely and her fated lovers, but simply trolling any nonsense that comes into their heads in time to the dancing of the water and the rhythm of their swimming.

The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903

They were set to old airs -- lullabies, chansons, barcarolles, serenades, taken out of the folk-lore of many lands.

Mrs. Falchion, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

They were set to old airs -- lullabies, chansons, barcarolles, serenades, taken out of the folk-lore of many lands.

Mrs. Falchion, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

At the foot of the balcony the strolling musicians kept succeeding each other from time to time, singing voluptuous barcarolles and love serenades ....

Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

They were set to old airs -- lullabies, chansons, barcarolles, serenades, taken out of the folk-lore of many lands.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

And as Polly sang on and on, light opera airs, rhythmical barcarolles, songs of the people, with their naïve, swinging cadence, a new, exultant sense of power seemed lifting her above her own level.

A Venetian June Anna Fuller 1884

Fragments of old Italian serenades and barcarolles came back to me as if I had heard them yesterday for the first time.

Birds of Prey 1875

Frank Rivington began to sing in a mellow tenor voice little barcarolles and Venetian boat-songs, which were full of a measured rhythmic movement like oar-strokes and the beat of waves.

A Little Country Girl Susan Coolidge 1870

Venice the songs of the country, in Naples the barcarolles, made his memory as he came away a thicket of singing-birds.

From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 George William Curtis 1858

The crew scoop up the water as if digging with the paddle; they vary the exercise by highly eccentric movements, and they sing savage barcarolles the better to keep time.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855