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can⋅zo⋅na

  [kan-zoh-nuh; It. kahn-tsaw-nah]
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–noun, plural -ne  [-ney; It. -ne] .
canzone.

can⋅zo⋅ne

  [kan-zoh-nee; It. kahn-tsaw-ne] .
–noun, plural -nes, -ni  [-nee]
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.
Also, canzona.

Origin:
1580–90; < It < L cantiōnem, acc. sing. of cantiō song; see canto, -ion
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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

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