A canto is a significant section of a long poem or the highest part in a piece of choral music. It is sometimes used as a synonym for a hymn or canticle.
Musically, it is usually the melody. Because canto means 'song' in many Romance languages it is also a modified element of the names of several musical forms including:
Canto is the name of a talk show on the People's (fairy's) TV network in the book series Artemis Fowl.
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Bel canto (Belcanto, bel canto) (Italian, beautiful singing), an Italian musical term, refers to the art and science of vocal technique which originated in Italy during the late sixteenth century and reached its pinnacle in the early part of the nineteenth century during the Bel Canto opera era.
Bel canto singing is characterized by a focus on perfect evenness throughout the voice, skillful legato, a light upper register, tremendous agility and flexibility, and a certain lyric, "sweet" timbre.
While the bel canto period is typically dated to the early 19th century, the term itself did not come to be commonly used in its current sense until the middle of the 19th century.
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