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.

[1] For example the passus duriusculus.

[1] "It was present equally in vocal and instrumental music.

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