canto
- noun
- /ˈkæn.toʊ/
- Specialized
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canto
- Cordially, E. P. (Later Listen got a Canto, and in 1960 the Marvell Press reprinted the memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska.)
- canto popular
Examples
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Its reason for being disappeared along with the military regime, precisely because canto popular was born to resist dictatorship, to embody counterculture, and to ritualize hope.
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33 There is a permanent exchange of artists which makes each show or recording a unique product, and this underlines, in its very mode of production, canto popular's nature as a metaphor for class alliances that keep up resistance to the dictatorship.
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But although canto popular's main goal is the reconstruction of the collective memory and, through it, of national identity, several strategies can be distinguished.
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The act of communication, the unrepeatable instance of utterance, is the distinctive feature of canto popular.
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There was a communication problem we were suffering from, and somehow, maybe not totally, it helped us socially to go out a little, to go out after listening in secret to a record in your house, maybe not with direct political lyrics, but that still insinuated something, and all of that meant a lot in Canto Popular...
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The imperial eagle as a symbol of justice takes up three whole cantos in Dante's Paradiso, but the image is formed of lights (Paradiso 18-20).
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Canto popular presents itself as music based on rural or urban folkloric roots, with high-quality poetic texts, and as a search for unadulterated popular song, expressing itself above all through the singer of ballads.
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Later, in canto 16, while talking to other sodomites, Dante identifies the concern of Florentines for money and material values at the expense of spiritual ones as the main cause of their corruption (Inf 16:67-68).
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Of all the urban folkloric rhythms reclaimed by canto popular, those from carnival stand out, especially the candombe, of remote African origin, and the murga, which stems from the Cadiz carnival.
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In the choir, the soprano always sings the canto, bringing the melody to life.
Synonyms
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6.1
A single musical line sung or played by one part
The main tune in music with several separate parts, often from church chant
Compounds
- Specialized
1
9.1
A smooth, lyrical way of singing in opera that shows a pure voice and quick, skillful notes
Surface Forms
Etymology
Canto comes from the Latin cantus 'song' and cantare 'to sing', and in music it names the singing part that carries the main tune, so the canto is the top or main 'song' line in a choir, like the melody you hear first.