found: Grove music online, viewed July 14, 2014(Canzonetta [canzonet]; A title given to a light secular vocal piece, particularly in the Italian style, from the late 16th century to the late 18th... Its first appearance on a title-page was in the second editions of Orazio Vecchi's Canzonette ... libro primo a quattro voci (1580) ... Canzonettas of the type invented and popularized by Vecchi are shorter and simpler than the five- and six-voice canzoni of Ferretti and Conversi, but more refined and stylish than the three-voice villanellas of the 1560s and 70s. The texts are simple strophic poems of amorous, humorous or satirical character, often imitating the Petrarchistic style of madrigal verse. Each stanza consists of three to six lines, with lines of seven and 11 syllables freely intermixed... The musical features of the canzonetta include stanza forms of AABB or AABCC, clearly separated phrases, homophonic or lightly imitative textures, sprightly rhythms, high tessituras and madrigalian word-painting reflecting the text of the first stanza)