canzona
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canzone
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of canzona
C19: from Italian, from Latin cantiō song, from canere to sing
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He sang stanzas glorifying the bride and her husband, and the muses responded with a canzona in nine parts.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
Calvacoressi, on dominant relationship, 52. canon, 11; account of, 36-37. canzona, 69.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding
I at once announced my return to Cornelius by sending him a small Venetian gondola, which I had bought for him in Venice, and to which I added a canzona written with nonsensical Italian words.
From My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner
Another time the queen of the day, Emilia, invites Dioneo to sing a canzona.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
The first of these deals with the language, the second with the style and with the composition of the canzone.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
But the most remarkable of all Monti's conjugal effusions, is a canzone written a short time before his death, and when he was more than seventy years of age.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
"Una canzone bella-bella—molto bella—" She pronounced her syllables one by one, calling into the night.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Down he plumped, accordingly, cross-legged by his new mistress, and warbled a canzone to the viola which enchanted the lady.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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 Vernon Lee
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