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Pianto

In music, the pianto (from Italian: pianto, meaning "crying" or "weeping") 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.

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