Pertaining to the right (melody) side of the instrument. Same as descant .
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            the highest part (usually the melody) in a piece of choral music 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a major division of a long poem 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a significant section of a long poem or the highest part in a piece of choral music 
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            A major section of a long poem. For example, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene is divided into cantos.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            n. One of the divisions of an extended poem.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            derivation from k â n d a: part or section, chapter, book. A name for the books or twelve sections of this p u r â n a, the Bhâgavatam.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            The subdivision of a long narrative poem e.g. in The Divine Comedy by Dante. Spenser was the first English poet to use cantos. The Cantos is a long (some would say too long) poem by Ezra Pound.