Cantus

Consequently, the term cantus is not to be limited to songs which are really sung and set to melodies, but can be applied as well to every religious lyrical poem which can be sung and set to music. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The highest category of what he termed the cantus song or composition was the Mass, immediately followed by compositions on other sacred texts, these including the psalm, the Magnificat and the hymn; these genres were separate from the Mass, but were still part of the liturgy. ❋ Lu (2009)

On the other hand the expression cantus in Saint Augustine's definition must be extended. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

This method of chant was known as the cantus responsorius, and is mentioned in the writings of Tertullian, St. Augustine, and St. Isidore. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Cantus-firmus writing is rarer in Lassus than in Palestrina, but on occasion Lassus could revert to the kind of cantus-firmus procedure used by Josquin and Obrecht; Homo cum in honore esset six voices; published 1566 has a soggetto cavato as cantus firmus on the text ‘Nosce te ipsum’, heard successively in breves, semibreves and minims. ❋ Lu (2009)

In the upper part, however, the treble is substituted for the "cantus" or "medius" cliff: and the whole work is so arranged as to suit the library of the musical student, and to be fit for use in the Choir. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the upper part, however, the treble is substituted for the "cantus" or ❋ Various (N/A)

What I mean is that God wants us to love him eternally with our whole hearts - not in such a way as to injure or weaken our earthly love, but to provide a kind of cantus firmus to which the other melodies of life provide the counterpoint. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With these composers' pieces as a template, three improvisations in baroque style opened the concert: a freewheeling fantasia, a set of variations on a cantus firmus and a dizzying rendition of a ground bass pattern. ❋ Unknown (2011)

By 1412, in a treatise devoted to the subject, Prosdacimus de Baldemandis states that counterpoint had become concerned with melody against melody (cantus contra cantus). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Falling chronologically between Carter's first two string quartets, it's not completely off-base to hear the Sonata as Carter-lite, the polyrhythms and simultaneous tempi squared off into simpler subdivisions, as in the first movement, with the harpsichord ticking off a stately, out-of-time chorale-prelude cantus firmus. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

Sequence and unpretentious singable lines characterize the Missa ‘Johannes Christe care’/‘Ecce puer meus’; the texture of this mass is a 3 since the cantus firmus is absent much of the time. ❋ Lu (2009)

Compact and frequently homorhythmic in the prevailing four-voice passages, its skilful combination of cantus-firmus structure with principles of parody technique recurs in the Missa ‘Tant bel mi sont pensade’. ❋ Lu (2009)

The Missa ‘Dicit Dominus’ is a study in the complexity of rhythmic structure: the cantus firmus appears in various mensurations conflicting with those of the other parts. ❋ Lu (2009)

This disposition of voices, with two parts in distinct ranges lying beneath the tenor, extends the notated range downward in some cases three of the motets descend to D and facilitates Regis' varied treatment of the cantus firmus. ❋ Lu (2009)

That [family] is a cantu ❋ Thelastnamegiver (2014)

Hey [where to] [freshman] get wasted every year. Me- at the [cantus] ❋ Vantomas (2017)

“Amber cantu is so [amazing]” [Yeah Ik] [I am]😜 ❋ Amberisthefinest (2023)

Hey, matthew cantu, did u see the new drop of that [8 year old] boy? [He's fine] [af]. ❋ Her Next Man (2021)

Jack:Did you hear about that [farmer]/ [rapist] they found in [kentucky]? Jim:Yea he was a total Joe Cantu. ❋ Shinfo (2009)

Tom Cantu ❋ Cantu (2010)

Girl 1- [Omg Becky] can really dance! Girl 2- she [twerkin] [off that] Odd Cantus ❋ Obsidian Mace (2019)

While I was [tagging] this chick from behind, she mentioned to me that she wanted a Hommerro Cantu with her sister as the third member. [The sister] took it to a new level when she stuck her fingers down her throat and [blew chunks] on her own sisters back. ❋ Randy Bobandy (2006)

You can't [use] that name it's [already] trademarked- you want to [repeat] the Hommerro Cantu imbraglio! ❋ Entomologist (2006)

Jon drank so many [cans] of beer last night, he got a [cantusion] on his right [index finger]. ❋ Dan Summers (2008)