Canzone

Canzone#

The canzone (German: Kanzone) is the characteristic strophic form of , the Middle High German lyric genre. In , the canzone follows the tri-partite structure of the Provençal canso: two metrically identical (“supports”) form the (literally “up-song”), which is followed by a metrically distinct (“down-song”). The following rules generally apply: * each line in the first rhymes with the matching line in the second * the introduces new rhymes and may contain a non-rhyming line * the is longer than a single but shorter than the entire . class=“wikitable” style=“border; margin: 2em; vertical-align: top; background:#fff;” - ! colspan=“5” Hartman von Aue, Crusading Song (MF 211,20) The earliest canzone in date from the late 12th Century and are part of the more general influence of the Romance lyric.

See also#

• – a genre named after the equivalent French word

Further reading#

• “Canzone”, in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.
• The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, ed. Don Randel. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1986.
• “Canzone”, in The Shapes of our Singing, a comprehensive guide to verse forms and metres from around the world, by Robin Skelton. EWU, Spokane, WA, 2002.