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单词 canto
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canton.

Brit. /ˈkantəʊ/, U.S. /ˈkænˌtoʊ/
Forms: Plural cantos.
Etymology: < Italian canto song, singing < Latin cantus, < canĕre to sing.
1. A song, ballad. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > a song > [noun]
songeOE
leothOE
galec1200
rounc1225
laya1240
gammec1425
muse1528
cantion1579
madrigal1589
canzon1590
canzone1590
canton1594
canto1603
cantilene1635
cantilena1740
Lied1852
art song1875
canzonetta1947
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > poem to be sung
songeOE
wordseOE
leothOE
laya1240
dittya1300
ditea1325
ode1579
dit1590
canton1594
canto1603
1603 G. Fletcher Sorrowes Ioy 23 To heare a Canto of Elizaes death.
1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vi. lxxvi. 83 Then should thy shepherd..sing A thousand Canto's in thy heav'nly praise.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Canto, a Song or Sonnet.
1710 Pict. 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 English by Spenser.)
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [noun] > canto
fitc888
canto1590
canticle1596
canton1609
jornada1656
duan1763
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene sig. A3 (heading) Canto I.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ii. sig. C2v The which for length I will not here pursew, But rather will reserue it for a Canto new. View more context for this quotation
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. lxvii. 23 As the next Canto dreadfully shall tell.
1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 20 This truly elegant piece in five cantos.
1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ Ebb & Flow II. xxxi. 195 In the twelfth canto of the Purgatorio.
3. Music. [Italian.] See quot. 1879.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [noun] > part in harmony or counterpoint > melody or ground
plainsonga1450
ground1592
melody1728
cantilena1740
canto1782
canto fermo1789
air1813
cantus firmus1847
cantus1887
musica plana1940
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 325 Canto..the upper part or melody in a composition of many parts.
1879 Hullah in Grove Dict. Music 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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