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.
