- Canzone
Literally "song" in Italian, a canzone (plural: "canzoni") (cognate with English "to
chant ") is an Italian orProvençal song orballad . It is also used to describe a type of lyric which resembles a madrigal. Sometimes a composition which is simple and songlike is designated as a canzone, especially if it is by a non-Italian; a good example is the aria "Voi che sapete" fromMozart 's Marriage of Figaro.The term canzone is also used interchangeably with
canzona , an important Italian instrumental form of the late 16th and early 17th century. Often works designated as such are "canzoni da sonar"; these pieces are an important precursor to the sonata. Terminology was lax in the late Renaissance and earlyBaroque music periods, and what one composer might call "canzoni da sonar" might be termed "canzona" by another, or even "fantasia". In the work of some composers, such asPaolo Quagliati , the terms seem to have had no formal implication at all.ee also
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Chanson , a genre derived from the French version of the wordDerived from the Provençal "canso", the very lyrical and original Italian canzone consists of 5 to 7 stanzas typically set to music, each stanza resounding the first in rhyme scheme and in number of lines (7 to 20 lines). The canzone is typically hendecasyllabic (11 syllables). The "congedo" or "commiato" also forms the pattern of the Provençal "tornado", known as the French "envoi", addressing the poem itself or directing it to the mission of a character, originally a personage. Originally delivered at the Sicilian court of Emperor Frederick II during the 13th century of the Middle Ages, the lyrical form was later commanded by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and leading Renaissance writers such as Spenser (the marriage hymn in his "Epithalamion").References and further reading
* "Canzone", in "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
* "The New Harvard Dictionary of Music", ed. Don Randel. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-674-61525-5
* "Canzone", in "The Shapes of our Singing", a comprehensive guide to verse forms and metres from around the world, by Robin Skelton. EWU, Spokane, WA, 2002. ISBN 0-910055-76-9
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