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  • Del freddo Rheno, a complete sestina rather in the style of the cyclic madrigals of Arcadelt and Berchem, opens the group on a note of simple tunefulness (this piece was popular with intabulators); in other madrigals the style varies from Willaert-like seriousness (Occhi piangete), through supple contrapuntal writing resembling Rore (Per pianto la mia carne), to the chordal declamation typical of the Roman madrigale arioso (Queste non son più lagrime).

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Tramutando il pianto in sorriso, scoprono che si ottiene più col solletico che con le cattive!

    No Fat Clips!!! : Zune Arts: Tickle Party 2008

  • Qual pianto are these eleven years, for this is the 26th of December, the anniversary of my arrival at your villa on the Lake of Geneva.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • Qual pianto are these eleven years, for this is the 26th of December, the anniversary of my arrival at your villa on the Lake of Geneva.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • She had, as the reader perceives, fully understood “il pianto,” which the English poet chanted by the mouth of his Gulmare.

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • L'effetto non era di pianto (mi ricordo benissimo che le parole erano di sdegno) ma di un certo rigore e freddo nel sangue, che di fatto turbava l'animo.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

  • E tu Gente Ternana, che sulla bara hai pianto raccogli il giuramento, propaga questo canto!

    Cantata per Luigi Trastulli 1949

  • Quivi, secondo che per ascoltare, non avea pianto, ma 'che di sospiri, che l'aura eterna facevan tremare.

    The Waste Land Thomas Stearns 1922

  • In the third act, after a passionate aria ( "Il pianto rasciuga") by

    The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

  • For example, after the strophe, "Sei la citta del pianto, e questa reggia quella del duol," comes a slight glimmering of hope, and then, "Madman that I am! whither does my grief lead me?"

    The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart, Wolfgang A 1864

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