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cantus

[ kan-tuhs ]

noun

plural cantus.


cantus

/ ˈæԳə /

noun

  1. a medieval form of church singing; chant
  2. Also calledcanto the highest part in a piece of choral music
  3. (in 15th- or 16th-century music) a piece of choral music, usually secular, in polyphonic style
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cantus1

From Latin, dating back to 1580–90; canto
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of cantus1

Latin: song, from canere to sing
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“The Selipskys, Cantus and Steins are joining the Rave Green as the club enters a critical and exciting time in its history,” Hanauer said in a news release.

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The most arresting and emotionally resonant work came first, “Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven,” Dove’s prayerlike ballet for six dancers, to Arvo Pärt’s spacious and somber “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten.”

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For a conversation with him based around an exchange of pieces of music, I chose the “Water Cadenza” from Tan Dun’s “Water Passion” as an amuse-bouche, followed by the first movement of “Cantus Arcticus” by Einojuhani Rautavaara.

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The second piece I picked for you is the beginning of the “Cantus Arcticus” by Rautavaara, a Finnish composer who died in 2016.

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The next day he pairs Britten’s “Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury” with Arvo Pärt’s “Cantus in Memory of Britten,” before concluding with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, with the elegant pianist Gilles Vonsattel as soloist.

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