Canzone (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun, plural can·zo·nes, can·zo·ni [kan-zoh-nee; Italian kahn-tsaw-nee] /kænˈzoʊ ni; Italian kɑnˈtsɔ ni/
  1. a variety of lyric poetry in the Italian style, of Provençal origin, that closely resembles the madrigal.
  2. a poem in which each word that appears at the end of a line of the first stanza appears again at the end of one of the lines in each of the following stanzas.
noun plural -ni (-nɪ)
  1. a Provençal or Italian lyric, often in praise of love or beauty
    • a song, usually of a lyrical nature
    • (in 16th-century choral music) a polyphonic song from which the madrigal developed
Canzone (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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