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A dictionary of musical terms, 1889
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1CANONE CHIUSO—CANTO A CAPPELLA.
3From ANDRÉ's "Lehrbuch der Tonkunst," 1832.
5The following is a canon cancrizans with a bass part per recte et retro:
7Productions of this class are utterly valueless as contributions to art.
9Canone chiuso (It.) A close canon. [Canon.]
10Canone infinito or perpetuo (It.) Never ending canon. Infinite canon.
11Canone sciolto (It.) A free canon, not strict.
12Canonici. A name given to followers of the Pythagorean system of music, as opposed to Musici, the followers of the Aristoxenian system. [Pythagoreans.]
13Cantabile (It.) In a singing style.
14Cantamento (It.) The air or melody of a phrase.
15Cantando (It.) [Cantabile.]
16Cantadour (Old Fr.) A street singer.
17Cantambanco (It.) A mountebank.
18Cantante (It.) A singer.
19Cantare (It.) To sing.
20Cantare a aria (It.) To sing with a certain amount of improvisation. [Penillion singing.]
21Cantare a orecchio (It.) To sing by ear.
22Cantare di maniera (It.) To sing in a florid or ornamental style.
23Cantare di manierata (It.) To sing in a florid or ornamental style.
24Cantata (It.) A cantata consisted originally of a mixture of recitative and melody, and was given to a single voice, but the introduction of choruses altered the first character of the cantata, and gave rise to some confusion in the manner of describing it. So that it has been variously defined as "an elegant and passionate species of vocal composition for a single voice," "a long vocal composition, the text of which is Italian," "a kind of short oratorio, or opera not intended for the stage," "a short piece of vocal music of a pathetic character," "one of the Psalms or portions of Scripture set to music for voices and instruments," according to the work the describer had in his mind at the time, but a cantata is now understood as a short work in the musical form of an oratorio, but without dramatis personae.
25Cantatilla (It.) The diminutive of Cantata.
26Cantatina (It.) A male singer.
27Cantatore (It.) A male singer.
28Cantatrice (It.) A female singer.
29Cantatorium. A music book.
30Cantellerando (It.) Singing in a subdued voice, trilling.
31Canti carnascialesci (It.) Songs sung during the carnival.
32Canti carnival
33Cantici (It.) Another name for the Laudi spirituali, or songs sung in the old Romish church in praise of God, the Blessed Virgin and Saints, and Martyrs.
34Canticle (1) A song or hymn in honour of God, or of some special sacred event.
35(2) The word is also applied to certain detached psalms and hymns used in the service of the Anglican Church, such as the Venite exultemus, Te Deum laudamus, Benedicite omnia opera, Benedictus, Jubilate Deo, Magnificat, Cantate Domino, Nunc dimittis, Deus misereatur, and the verses used instead of the Venite on Easter-day.
36Canticum (Lat.) (1) A song. (2) A song in the Roman comedy, accompanied by music and dancing. Sometimes one person sang the song while another went through the appropriate gesticulation.
37Cantilena (It.) (1) An oft-repeated, old song. (2) In mediæval music, singing exercises, in which were introduced all the intervals of the scale, &c. (3) In old church-song the plain-song or canto-fermo sung in unison by one or more persons to an organ accompaniment. (4) A ballad.
38Cantilenare (It.) To sing without accompaniment.
39Cantilenaccia (It.) Bad singing.
40Cantillatio (Lat.) Declamation in a singing style, applied to a method of reading the Epistles and Gospels in the church. [Accentus Ecclesiasticus.]
41Cantino (It.) The smallest string upon the violin. The E string. (Fr.) chanterelle.
42Cantique (Fr.) A sacred song or melody, a canticle.
43Canto (It.) The upper voice-part in concerted music, so called because it has the melody or air. [Air.]
44Canto a cappella (It.) Sacred music; cantore di cappella, the precentor.
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