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What is a cantus?

What is a cantus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A melody or song, particularly ecclesiastical.
  2. (music) The principal voice.
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On the other hand, the In nomine was still alive in Facy's day, and Lugge was composing his cantus firmus settings, so the genre was not quite dead.
The cantus Evangelii and Epistolarum admitted likewise of a great and wearisome licence of inflection.
This cadence articulates the structure of the cantus firmus more clearly than the first, marking precisely the end of the second line of the hymn.
In the final movement of that symphony, the medieval Russian liturgical chant 'Requiescat in pace' is employed as a cantus firmus.
To cantus firmus a write two counterpoints above and two below in the first species.
The use of a plainchant cantus firmus, or dominating tenor theme, knit together the movements even though they were separated during the liturgy.

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