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Romanza style
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Poetic genre of the classical period found in vocal and instrumental music. Sulzer and Koch defined movements labelled "Romanza" as "little narrative songs in the extremely naive and rather antique tone of the old rhymed Romances ... the theme and expression must be of the utmost simplicity and naive in the extreme"
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