Romance (music)
Musical form of brief, simple melody / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the traditional musical term. For the genre of music, see Romantic music. For other uses, see Romance (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with love song.
The term romance (Spanish: romance/romanza, Italian: romanza, German: Romanze, French: romance, Russian: романс, Portuguese: romance, Romanian: romanţă) has a centuries-long history. Applied to narrative ballads in Spain, it came to be used by the 18th century for simple lyrical pieces not only for voice, but also for instruments alone. The Oxford Dictionary of Music[1] states that "generally it implies a specially personal or tender quality".
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