Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Cantĭcum

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Cantĭcum

A technical term of the Roman stage. In the narrower sense it denoted a melody or air composed in changing rhythms, the text to which was sung behind the stage to the accompaniment of a flute, while the actor expressed the meaning by pantomime. In Cicero's time, however, the cantica were sometimes performed by the actors. In a wider sense the word might mean any part in a play which was not simply recited, but sung or performed in melodrama with musical accompaniments. See Drama.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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