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Example sentences for "canto fermo"

  • Sir Hubert Parry has pointed out that the fundamental idea of variations in instrumental music is co-ordinate with the canto fermo and counterpoint of the early choral composers.

  • In choral music the canto fermo system almost died out when maturer principles of structure were discovered; but variation-form has never fallen into disuse at any period since its invention.

  • When the canto fermo is in notes of equal length and is sung without intermission, it is of course as rigid a mechanical device as an acrostic.

  • Nor were these two principles, the canon and the canto fermo, likely, by combination in their strictest forms, to produce better artistic results than separately.

  • They say it is canto fermo, Gregorian, etc.

  • I send you a specimen of the mode in which they render the canto fermo, regardless both of the words and the sense.

  • There is really nothing in these art-forms which is not continuous with the universal practice of writing counterpoint on a canto fermo.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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