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Cantata
Cantata: a vocal composition of arias, recitatives, and often choruses with instruments, unstaged. Born in Italy around 1620 (first printed use: Grandi, 1620), standardized by Scarlatti, perfected in the German church cantata of Bach, who wrote over 200; since the 19th century also a concert genre for solo, chorus, and orchestra.
Cantautore
Cantautore, plural cantautori, is the Italian word for a singer-songwriter, coined in 1960 as a contraction of cantante-autore and central to Italian popular music through canzone d'autore.
Canterbury scene
Canterbury scene (Canterbury Sound): British musicians' network and psychedelic/prog substyle from the Wilde Flowers (1963), producing Soft Machine, Caravan, Gong, Hatfield and the North, and National Health; jazz-rock fusion, contested as a genre label.
Canti
Canti (Songs) is the title Giacomo Leopardi gave his collected lyric poetry, first published in Florence in 1831, with a definitive posthumous edition in 1845.
Canti orfici
Canti orfici (Orphic Songs) is the only book by Italian poet Dino Campana, a collection of poems and lyric prose published at his own expense in 1914.
Canticle of the Sun
Canticle of the Sun (Cantico di frate Sole, Laudes creaturarum), religious song by St Francis of Assisi, c. 1224–1225 at San Damiano, first great poem in the Umbrian vernacular praising Brother Sun, Sister Moon, and Sister Death.
Cántico cósmico
Cántico cósmico (Cosmic Canticle) is a 581-page epic poem by Nicaraguan poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal, published in 1989, tracing the universe's history from the Big Bang.
Canticuentos
Canticuentos is a Colombian children's music project created by Chilean-born composer Marlore Anwandter for the Medellín label Codiscos, whose 1975 first album became Colombia's best-selling children's record.
Cantiga de amigo
The cantiga de amigo is a medieval Galician-Portuguese love lyric in which a woman's voice speaks of her sweetheart, one of three major genres of the troubadour tradition.
Cantigas de amor
Cantigas de amor are the male-voiced love songs of the medieval Galician-Portuguese troubadour lyric, modeled on Provençal fin'amor; about 704 survive from the late 12th to the mid-14th century.
Cantigas de escárnio e maldizer
Cantigas de escárnio e maldizer are the satirical songs of the medieval Galician-Portuguese troubadours, one of the three major genres of profane lyric, alongside the cantiga de amor.
Cantigas de Santa Maria
The Cantigas de Santa Maria are over 400 songs in honor of the Virgin Mary, compiled at the 13th-century court of King Alfonso X of Castile.
Cantik Itu Luka
Cantik Itu Luka (Beauty Is a Wound) is a 2002 Indonesian novel by Eka Kurniawan, blending magical realism with Indonesian history; its 2015 English translation brought him international acclaim.
Cantinflas
Cantinflas (Mario Moreno Reyes, 1911–1993), Mexican film comedian and creator of the peladito character; star of ¡Ahí está el detalle! and Around the World in 80 Days; gave Spanish the verb cantinflear.
Canto a un dios mineral
"Canto a un dios mineral" is a long philosophical poem by Mexican poet Jorge Cuesta, published posthumously in 1942 and considered among the darkest poems in Spanish.
Canto General
Canto General is an epic poem by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in Mexico in 1950, presenting a poetic history of the Americas in 231 poems.
Cantonese cuisine
Cantonese cuisine (粤菜, Yue cai), the cooking of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau, is one of China's eight major cuisines with Guangfu, Teochew, and Hakka branches, known for fresh ingredients, light seasoning, wok hei, and yum cha dim sum culture.
Cantopop
Cantopop is Cantonese-language popular music from Hong Kong, named by Hans Ebert in 1978. It rose in 1974, peaked in the 1980s and 1990s as a voice of Hong Kong identity, declined after 1997, and saw a 2020s revival.
Cantos de vida y esperanza
Cantos de vida y esperanza is a 1905 book of poetry by the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, published in Madrid and considered the summit of Hispanic American modernismo.
Cants d'Ausiàs March
Cants d'Ausiàs March is the collected poetic corpus of Ausiàs March (1400–1459), a Valencian knight writing in Catalan: 128 poems, over 10,000 verses, divided since 1539 into love, death, moral, and spiritual songs.
Cantus firmus
Cantus firmus (Latin, "fixed song"; also cantus prius factus, canto fermo): a preexisting melody, usually plainchant, forming the basis of a polyphonic work, carried by the tenor voice, central to the 15th-century cyclic mass and to species counterpoint pedagogy.
Canvas
Canvas (帆布, hampu) is a heavy plain-weave fabric of cotton, linen, or hemp, named for hemp; duck cloth is denser plied-yarn canvas graded by the US numbered system where lower numbers mean heavier cloth.
Canvas (musician)
Canvas is the stage name of Rita Mucavele, an Atlanta-based DJ and producer of Zimbabwean heritage who has performed bass music since 2013, releasing on Odyzey and Wakaan.
Canvas of Blood (몽유도원도)
Canvas of Blood (몽유도원도) is Jang Hoon's upcoming 2026 Joseon-era historical film starring Kim Nam-gil, Park Bo-gum, and Lee Hyun-wook about royal brothers Suyang and Anpyeong, whose brotherhood fractures after An Gyeon paints the 1447 landscape Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land; released by Plus M Entertainment.
Canyon Passage
Canyon Passage (1946) is a Jacques Tourneur Technicolor Western produced by Walter Wanger for Universal, adapted from Ernest Haycox's novel, starring Dana Andrews, Susan Hayward, and Brian Donlevy, set in 1856 Oregon.
Canzone
The canzone, Italian for "song," is a lyric verse form from medieval Italy and France, the most prestigious form of the Italian lyric tradition, used by Dante and Petrarch.
Canzoniere
The Canzoniere, known as Rerum vulgarium fragmenta or Rime sparse, is Petrarch's collection of 366 Italian lyric poems, mostly on his love for Laura, that shaped European lyric poetry into the seventeenth century.
Canzonissima
Canzonissima was an RAI song-competition variety show tied to Italy's New Year lottery, airing in twelve editions from 1958 to 1975 and drawing over 20 million viewers.
Cao Bá Quát
Cao Bá Quát (1808 or 1809 – 1854 or 1855) was a Vietnamese poet and mandarin who led an 1853 uprising against the Nguyễn dynasty.
Caoilfhionn Dunne
Caoilfhionn Dunne (pronounced roughly "Kwee-linn"), born 1984 in Dublin, is an Irish actress known for Lizzie in Love/Hate, Ruth in In View, Jackie Walsh in Industry, and Dara in Netflix's How to Get to Heaven from Belfast.