Canzona
or CANZONE (kän-tsō' na), a short song, in which the music is of much more importance than the words. It is one of the ancient forms of measured melody, and when the older writers employed it, it was usually made the vehicle for the display of skill and contrivance in the treatment of the phrases in fugal imitation. A secondary meaning of the word, scoffing or banter, perhaps accounts for the use of a form in which a musical imitation or mocking was shown. In the early part of the last century the word was used to describe an instrumental composition, similar to the sonata as then known.
CAOUTCHOUC (kat'shök or katchök). See RUBBER.