| 单词 | cantus |
| 释义 | cantus Mus.|ˈkæntəs|
Pl. cantus |-tuːs|.
[L.]
A song or melody, especially ecclesiastical melody; also, the principal voice. Also attrib.
[1481Caxton Reynard (1895) xxvii. 63 What was it. prose or ryme. metre or verse..I trowe it was cantum. for I herde you synge.] 1590Whythorne (title) Cantus. (Bassus.) Of Duos, or Songs for two voices... Of the which, some be playne and easie to be sung, or played on Musicall Instruments. 1597Morley Introd. Mus. 20 In this Cantus there is no difficultie if you sing your Semibreefes three Minyms a peece. 1662T. Davidson (title) Cantus, Songs and Fancies, To Three, Four, or Five Parts, both apt for Voices or Viols, With a brief Introduction to Musick. 1887Athenæum 25 June 842/1 The work is written for cantus, altus, and tenor—a rather unusual combination of voices. 1965English Studies XLVI. 269 The only extant cantus part in Hanover.
b. cantus firmus: see canto fermo.
1847A. L. Phillips Little Gradual p. xiv, The choir be directed by persons well skilled in the ecclesiastical chant (which is called Cantus Planus or Firmus). 1956A. Huxley Adonis & Alphabet 234 Those composers who wrote their masses around a cantus firmus—a melody borrowed, almost invariably, from the closed, symmetrical music of popular songs. 1962Listener 12 Apr. 652/2 The cantus firmus of Palestrina's early Mass, ‘Ecce sacerdos magnus’. |
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