[kan-zoh-nee; It. kahn-tsaw-ne] 
. [-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. |
| can·zo·ne (kān-zō'nē, känt-sō'ně) n. pl. can·zo·nes (-nēz, -nāz) or can·zo·ni (-nē)
[Italian, from Latin cantiō, cantiōn-, song, from cantus, past particple of canere, to sing; see kan- in Indo-European roots.] |
canzoni
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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