==Portuguese type==This type of poem has a "mote" - the beginning of the poem, which functions, when in music, as a refrain - followed by one or more intervening stanzas - the "volta", "copla" or "glosa" - each one with 7 lines.
Prva skladatelja villanelle sta bila neapeljčana Giovanni Domenico da Nola in Giovan Tomaso di Maio, sicer pa med najpomembnjše ustvarjalce te glasbene oblike štejejo Adrian Willaert, Luca Marenzio, Adriano Banchieri in Orlando di Lasso.