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canto::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | section, subdivision |
canto::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | voice part |
Examples of canto
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As a result, he never saw his name immortalized in the second canto of Don Juan.
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He learnt bel canto singing techniques, to which he ascribes his vocal longevity.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The church is mentioned by Dante Alighieri in the X canto of his Divine Comedy.
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I won't pretend many of you will shift from the video game to the 100-canto poem.
From the suntimes.com
Canto V ends with the poet's censure of his contemporaries that despise poetry.
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Spicer's interest in the canto jondo also led to links with the deep image poets.
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Canto LXII opens with a brief history of the Adams family in America from 1628.
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Sutherland soon was seen as the pre-eminent singer of Italian bel canto opera.
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Again the solo was delivered with a bel canto legato, an almost painful sweetness.
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- The highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music
- A major division of a long poem
- The canto is a principal form of division in a long poem, especially the epic. The word comes from Italian, from the Latin canto, meaning "I sing". ...
- Canto is an album by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd recorded in December 1996 by Lloyd with Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, and Billy Hart.
- Canto is a terminal based aggregator for online news. It supports all major news formats (RSS/RDF and Atom), as well as importing from and exporting to OPML. The news content is downloadable and as such Canto also has limited podcasting support. ...
- Canto is the 5th studio album (6th album overall including the live album Unplugged at Kafka) by C-rock band Soler. It performed successfully on the Hong Kong charts. ...
- The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 120 sections, each of which is a canto. Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards. ...
- A subdivision of an epic poem. Each of the three books of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" is divided into cantos. For example, in each of the cantos of "The Inferno," Dante meets the souls of people who were once alive and who have been condemned to punishment for sin. Return to Menu
- A major division of an extended narrative poem, such as an epic, as distinguished from shorter divisions like stanzas.
