zu singen pays homage to this genre.
ANSWER: Schubert pieces in this genre include his last song with text by Johann Mayrhofer, and the third Heine song in Schwanengesang, which, unusually, is in a major key. Alkan's Troisième recueil des chants ends with one of these pieces. Gabriel Fauré wrote 13 non-nocturne piano pieces in this genre. The "June" movement of Tchaikovsky's The Seasons is in this genre, which was used for the first two pieces in the "supplement" to the second year of Liszt's Years of Pilgrimage, including a transcription of one of them from Act III of Rossini's Otello. Liszt paid homage to this genre in two very late pieces titled with the adjective "Lugubre." Chopin included lengthy double trills on A sharp and C sharp in the right hand in his 12/8-time, F-sharp major piece in this genre, which is often paired with his Berceuse. Schubert's Auf dem Wasser zu singen pays homage to this genre. For 10 points, name this genre that Mendelssohn used in his three Songs Without Words labelled "Venetian Gondola Song."
ANSWER: Schubert pieces in this genre include his last song with text by Johann Mayrhofer, and the third Heine song in Schwanengesang, which, unusually, is in a major key.
barcarolle [or barcarolla; accept Gondelfahrer or Gondoliera or Gondolier's Song or Venetian Gondola Song or Venetian Boat Song or Venetianisches Gondellied before "Venetian"]