canzone

American  

[kan-zoh-nee, kahn-tsaw-ne] / kænˈzoʊ ni, kɑnˈtsɔ nɛ /

noun

plural

canzones, canzoni

1. a variety of lyric poetry in the Italian style, of Provençal origin, that closely resembles the madrigal.

2. a poem in which each word that appears at the end of a line of the first stanza appears again at the end of one of the lines in each of the following stanzas.

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canzone British  

/ kænˈzəʊnɪ /

noun

1. a Provençal or Italian lyric, often in praise of love or beauty

2. 1. a song, usually of a lyrical nature

   2. (in 16th-century choral music) a polyphonic song from which the madrigal developed

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Etymology

Origin of canzone

1580–90; < Italian < Latin cantiōnem, accusative singular of cantiō song; see canto, -ion

Example Sentences

The canzoni of Petrarch are composed in stanzas of varying, but in each case uniform, length, and every stanza corresponds precisely in metrical arrangement with every other stanza in the same canzone.

From Figures of Several Centuries by Symons, Arthur

Francis I.'s song, in the drama of Le Roi s'amuse, arrests the attention much more than does the Duke of Mantua's canzone in Rigoletto.

From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Edwards, Henry Sutherland

Non mi canti sul burrone Qualche lieta tua canzone?

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Mackay, Eric

Chi scrisse questa canzone Un gran Contino è, Anch ’egli il stregone Ch’ amava la figlia del re.

From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey

For her; but doubtless also to be handed round in society; a new sonnet or canzone by that charming and learned man, the Abate Petrarch.

From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Lee, Vernon