canticum

[kan-ti-kuhm]

noun

plural

cantica 

1. part of an ancient Roman drama chanted or sung and accompanied by music.

Word History and Origins

Origin of canticum¹

< Latin, equivalent to cant ( us ) song ( canto, chant ) + -icum noun suffix; -ic

Example Sentences

The Christmas Symphony had its longueurs, but Penderecki was a very devotional man, and the St Luke Passion he completed in 1966 suggested that his focus could be sharpened by the constraints of text – as the devotional works that followed, Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, Polish Requiem and De Profundis, proved.

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Three big Stravinsky works — “Canticum Sacrum,” “Symphony of Psalms” and the Symphony in Three movements — all from the same September program, are on the effusive side.

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Loup frequently takes the stage with the Traverse City choir Canticum Novum, but was so nervous about telling her first story that she wrote it out.

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More peculiar still was the world premiere of Newman's Fantasia and Fanfare on Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum."

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"Canticum Sacrum," however, is a work from 1956 in which Stravinsky was moving toward the 12-tone style that Newman has made such a point in rejecting.

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