canso
Provençal love poem
A canso is a love song in the tradition of medieval Occitan troubadours, typically celebrating courtly love with elaborate verse structures.
The form flourished in southern France during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and influenced later European lyric poetry. (Capitalized Canso is a place in Nova Scotia.)
Units of grouped lines
- envoiConcluding stanza of dedication
- refrainAbstain from acting
- rhyme schemeSound-matching arrangement in poetry
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
verses · lyric · composition · metrics · syllables · structure · performance · monophonic
Medieval Provençal lyric poet
- ProvenceSoutheastern French region
- langue d'ocSouthern French medieval vernaculars
- ToulouseOccitanie regional capital
- CataloniaAutonomous northeastern Spanish community
manuscripts · vernacular · medieval · lyric poetry · Aragon · Albigensian Crusade
stanzas
Units of grouped lines
- envoiConcluding stanza of dedication
- refrainAbstain from acting
- rhyme schemeSound-matching arrangement in poetry
melody · verses · lyric · composition · metrics · syllables · structure · performance · monophonic · declamation
troubadour
Medieval Provençal lyric poet
- ProvenceSoutheastern French region
- langue d'ocSouthern French medieval vernaculars
- ToulouseOccitanie regional capital
Catalonia · manuscripts · vernacular · medieval · lyric poetry · Aragon · Albigensian Crusade
beloved
One who is treasured
- unrequitedNot returned in kind
- idealizedMade to seem perfect
- adorationProfound loving regard
devotion · longing · ladylove · wooing · chaste · ennobling · suffering · secrecy · fidelity · submission
love
Intense fond attachment
springtime · crusade · mortality · desire · beauty · virtue · separation · jealousy · hope
- vocal musicsong, vocals, soprano, tenor, alto
- courtly lovetroubadour, aubade, medieval romance, chivalric romance, Arthurian romance
- Early Musicmedieval music, Renaissance music, motet, baroque music, troubadours
- Medieval PoetryDante, Carmina Burana, chansons de geste, chansons, romance poetry
- medieval songsmadrigal, ballade, rondeau, lai, frottola
- medieval verseaubade, lai, lay, rondeau, ballade
cansosatire
Mockery exposing vice
lament · invective · war song · political verse · funeral dirge
- Cantor's theoremPowersets always strictly larger
- bel cantoElegant Italian vocal style
recant, incantation, cantata, cantilever, canto, cantor, canticle, descant