Canzona

As a canzone (Italian Canzone, " song" ) is a lyric poem is called, which is a mixture between the song and the Ode and is often used to express serious and melancholy contemplation; in the Middle High German poetry she is a very common form of secular song.

It consists of several longer similarly constructed stanzas, which is followed by a shorter final stanza. Existence of the identically structured verses from more than ten verses, so the verse is divided into two parts, the feet and the tail. The former consist of two identically structured sections that rhyme with each other; the latter contains more rhymes that wrap around or cruising, and is thus set with the former in metric connection that his first verse rhymes with the last of the feet. In the short final verse also in the form of looping and crossing the rhymes takes place. The number of verses that make up the verse is indeterminate; usually change from five - to three-foot iambics. The canzone comes forth from the Provençal troubadours, received after its heyday in the Middle High German poetry but only in Italy, notably by Dante and Petrarch, their exemplary education. In Germany, the canzone was later spread the Romantics, such as August Wilhelm Schlegel, also August Graf von Platen, Friedrich Rückert, Christian Joseph of Zedlitz, Ludwig Bechstein, Franz von Dingelstedt and Max Waldau.

Canzone stanza in Middle High German

In the Middle High German poetry the canzone stanza of three parts, which are referred to as studs consisted; therefore refers to the meter as " studs verse ". The first two tunnels were alike and formed the " Broken Sang "; the last part of verse formed the so-called " swan song ". The tunnels were consistent metric.

Since Walther von der Vogelweide reigned stollige strophic also present in the epigrammatic poetry.

Example: Walther von der Vogelweide (L. 45.37 )

Italian canzone stanza

In the Italian literature of the fourteenth century Duecento and played the Canzone, which was regarded as solemn and dignified form of a poem, an essential role and was next to the sonnet is the most important verse form. In particular, Petrarch wrote numerous canzoni and gave the Italian canzone stanza also their characteristic shape.

The Italian canzoni dance is divided into three parts: Facade chiave (or concatenazione ) and Sirima (or coda ). The fronte corresponds to the German Situated Sang and the Sirima the swan song. The Facade is in turn divided into two piedi of three verses and the Sirima in two volte of three verses.

The canzone is usually from Endecasillabi ( ' endecasillabo ') and Settenari ( ' Siebensilbler '), which are located within the verse in different rhyme schemes. This scheme is also preserved for the other stanzas.