Type of instrumental music of the 16th and 17th centuries that developed from the Netherlandish chanson.
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A wonderful canzone by Guinicelli contains the following verses:
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Some one mentioned a Tuscan popular canzone.
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They are restricted to two forms: the sonnet, borrowed from the Sicilians, and the canzone, from the Provençals.
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They are written in two forms, the canzone taken from the Provencals, and the sonnet, taken from the Sicilians.
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And not believing that I could relate this in the brevity of a sonnet, I began then a canzone.
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Now follows a number which the author calls a "canzona"-song
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The Canzona Chamber Choir, with the Orchestra of St Cecilia, is doing exactly that.
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Gary has written for Canzona and Art New Zealand and has attended music festivals in Warsaw, Helsinki and Tokyo.
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"En't they got dæmons then, the witches?" said the other man, Michael Canzona.