Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CAN'ZONE, n. [It. a song. See Cant.]

A song or air in two or three parts, with passages of fugue and imitation; or a poem to which music may be composed in the style of a cantata. When set to a piece of instrumental music, it signifies much the same as cantata; and when set to a sonata, it signifies allegro, or a brisk movement. – Bailey. Busby.