Canto Definition | What is Canto? - PoetrySoup
Definition
[n] a major division of a long poem
[n] the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music
The subdivision of a long narrative poem e.g. in The Divine Comedy by Dante. Spenser was the first English poet to use cantos. The Cantos is a long (some would say too long) poem by Ezra Pound.
See Also...
poem, section, subdivision, verse form, voice part
Related Terms
accompaniment, air, alto, antistrophe, aria, baritone, bass, basso continuo, basso ostinato, bassus, book, burden, cantus, cantus figuratus, cantus planus, chorus, continuo, contralto, couplet, descant, distich, drone, envoi, epode, figured bass, ground b
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