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canto|ˈkæntəʊ|
Pl. -os.
[a. It. canto song, singing:—L. cantus, f. canĕre to sing.]
†1. A song, ballad. Obs.
1603G. Fletcher Death of Eliza iii, To heare a Canto of Elizae's death. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vi. lxxvi, Then should thy shepherd sing A thousand Canto's in thy heav'nly praise. 1656Blount Glossogr., Canto, a Song or Sonnet. 1710Pict. Malice 12 The Canto, or Poem in Dogrell Rhime.
2. One of the divisions of a long poem; such a part as the minstrel might sing at one ‘fit’. (Used in Italian by Dante, and in Eng. by Spenser.)
1590Spenser F.Q. (heading) Canto I. 1596Ibid. iv. ii. 54 The which, for length, I will not here pursew, But rather will reserve it for a canto new. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars i. lxvii. 8 As the next Canto fearfully shall tell. 1759Dilworth Pope 20 This truly elegant piece in five cantos. 1883Lloyd Ebb & Flow II. 195 In the twelfth canto of the Purgatorio.
‖3. Mus. [Ital.] See quot. 1879.
a1789Burney Hist. Mus. (ed. 2) II. iv. 325 Canto..the upper part or melody in a composition of many parts. 1879Hullah in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 306 Technically canto..is understood to represent that part of a concerted piece to which the melody is assigned. With the old masters this was, as a rule, the Tenor; with the modern it is almost always the Soprano. |