canzone

American  

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

noun

canzones, plural canzoni plural

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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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• canzoni
  plural
• canzones
  plural

Etymology

Origin of canzone

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

Example Sentences

Like the Italian canzone, these little lyrics, brief as a summer breeze, which momentarily sways the stalks of grass, must be heard with the ear of the heart.

From Critical Studies by Ouida

It consists, in the form in which it has come down to us, of an Convito. introduction and three treatises, each forming an elaborate commentary in a long canzone.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

These English verses might, like those Italian canzone, be created by one to whom all the stores of knowledge and of culture were sealed books.

From Critical Studies by Ouida

"Una canzone bella-bella—molto bella—" She pronounced her syllables one by one, calling into the night.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Guinizzelli has the following passage, in a canzone quoted by Ginguen�, Hist.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry