Pianto

In music, the '''''pianto''''' (en:crying) is the motif of a descending minor second, has represented laments and been associated textually with weeping, sighing (called the '''Mannheim sigh''' by Hugo Riemann); or pain, grief, etc.; since the 16th century.<ref name="Monelle">Monelle, Raymond (2000). ''The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays'', p.17. {{ISBN|978-0-691-05716-3}}.</ref> For example, the ''passus duriusculus''.<ref name="Monelle"/> "It was present equally in vocal and instrumental music."<ref name="Monelle"/>

==See also== *Lament bass

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