cantus firmus in English
noun
1
an existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition.
In the early years of the seventeenth century, English composers increasingly turned to the hexachord as a cantus firmus for keyboard pieces.
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1. In medieval music, Canto fermo (1789, from Italian, from Latin cantus firmus "fixed song") was the ancient traditional vocal music of the