Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A medieval Italian or Provençal lyric of varying stanzaic form, usually with a concluding envoy.
- noun A polyphonic song evolving from this form of poetry and resembling the madrigal in style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A song or air for one or more voices, of Provençal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal.
- noun An instrumental piece in the madrigal style.
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- noun An
Italian orProvençal song orballad . - noun A
canzona (mediaeval Italian instrumental composition).
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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Uskallan (Osa) si trova sul loro secondo album, intitolato Laulu Laakson Kukista (Una canzone sui fiori della valle) uscito nel 2008 per Fonal.
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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.
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Of the Italian poetic forms set to music the barzelletta sonnet and canzone.
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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.
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Una fantasia in stop animation basata su Lo Guarracino, canzone sciogli lingua napoletana del 18° secolo.
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La canzone è stata incisa con le cantanti Santogold e Lykke Li ed il rapper Kanye West.
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La canzone, scritta da Maynard James Keenan, è il secondo singolo tratto da Undertow, loro album di esordio.
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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.
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fbharjo commented on the word canzone
a Provençal air
May 2, 2010