Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A medieval Italian or Provençal lyric of varying stanzaic form, usually with a concluding envoy.
- n. A polyphonic song evolving from this form of poetry and resembling the madrigal in style.
Wiktionary
- n. An Italian or Provençal song or ballad.
- n. A canzona (mediaeval Italian instrumental composition).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A song or air for one or more voices, of Provençal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal.
- n. An instrumental piece in the madrigal style.
Etymologies
- Italian (Wiktionary)
- Italian, from Latin cantiō, cantiōn-, song, from cantus, past particple of canere, to sing. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“La canzone è stata incisa con le cantanti Santogold e Lykke Li ed il rapper Kanye West.”
“La canzone, scritta da Maynard James Keenan, è il secondo singolo tratto da Undertow, loro album di esordio.”
“Una fantasia in stop animation basata su Lo Guarracino, canzone sciogli lingua napoletana del 18° secolo.”
“The two volumes of canzone italiane 1574–81 can also for the most part be classified as madrigals; the first volume was twice reprinted, and both volumes appeared in German translation in 1595.”
“Petrarch dominates the first volume and is well represented in the others, with a six-section canzone cycle Standomi un giorno in a ‘narrative’, vibrantly declamatory style opening the second book.”
“The first of his own volumes of music to be published, Il primo libro delle canzone italiane 1574, was doubtless stimulated by this visit, and it was quickly followed by a number of other volumes, both sacred and secular.”
“Of the Italian poetic forms set to music the barzelletta sonnet and canzone.”
“His poetic tastes – a quatrain and a canzone stanza of Petrarch, an ottava by Ariosto, a Sannazaro poem and a pastoral in sestina a form he particularly liked – are typical of the period.”
“Uskallan (Osa) si trova sul loro secondo album, intitolato Laulu Laakson Kukista (Una canzone sui fiori della valle) uscito nel 2008 per Fonal.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘canzone’.
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Up In The Air @ Wordnik
List of words, terms, and phrases pertaining to or referencing anything that lives, traverses, moves in, uses, or otherwise occupies the space above the ground we walk on. Words and phrases contain...
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Words describing beauty
Words associated with beauty, love, and a happy feeling!
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Resounding Words
great timbre
sone, sonata, resound, sonorous, consonant, unison, sonic, swan, sonant, sonnet, dissonance, scraunch and 142 more...
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APLIT Poetry Word List
enjambment, epigram, antithesis, caesura, consonance, apostrophe, assonance, conceit, litotes, heroic couplet, scansion, ballad and 8 more...
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A Night at the Opera
Opera terminology.
sitzprobe, claque, maestro, impresario, divo, diva, spinto, bel canto, falsetto, parlando, pants role, trouser role and 50 more...
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