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Although it is not of Spanish origin but Italian (in fact, in the plural we say it as villanelle), it is used in our language to name a Renaissance vocal musical genre typical of Naples and Florence. It is a way to reduce canzona villanesca alla napolitana ("rustic song to the Neapolitan").

  




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

In Music is a vocal form of the Italian Renaissance. It also received the names of villanesca, canzone villanesca alla neapolitana, aria neapolitana, canzone neapolitana, villanella alla neapolitana. Song of Neapolitan origin. Rustic song in the Neapolitan style. The word as such means girl of the villa.

  


JOHN

VILLANELA Since the mid-sixteenth century it is one of the most popular forms of Italian songs. Its history dates back to the time of the Renaissance, in the fifteenth century, where various popular vowel forms originated in Naples, and which flourished between 1537 and 1650. Later he was influenced by the canzonetta, and subsequently influenced the madrigal.

  



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