"cantilena" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1964, Anthony Burgess, The Eve of St Venus:",
          "text": "He played a lazy tune that sinuated from C sharp down to G natural and back again. Astonishing that he could flute so lazy a cantilena while chasing nymphs.",
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          "ref": "1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter 27, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, pages 203-204:",
          "text": "The sounds of insects, of which I am seldom conscious unless I have not heard them in some time, resumed, with a noise that reminded me of the tuning of the strings in the Blue Hall before the first cantilena began, a noise I sometimes used to listen to when I lay on my pallet near the open port of the apprentices' dormitory.",
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        "(music) A vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style."
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