canzona

can·zo·na

[kan-zoh-nuh; Italian kahn-tsaw-nah]
noun, plural can·zo·ne [kan-zoh-ney; Italian kahn-tsaw-ne] .
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source Link To canzona
Collins
World English Dictionary
canzona (kænˈzəʊnə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a type of 16th- or 17th-century contrapuntal music, usually for keyboard, lute, or instrumental ensemble
 
[C19: from Italian, from Latin cantiō song, from canere to sing]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
00:10
Canzona is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia

canzona

a genre of Italian instrumental music in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 18th- and 19th-century music, the term canzona refers to a lyrical song or songlike instrumental piece

Learn more about canzona with a free trial on Britannica.com.

Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT