- chansonAny song with French words, but more specifically a classic, lyric-driven French song.
- canzoneAn Italian or Provençal song or ballad.
- cantionA song, poem or incantation.
- canzonetA short song, now especially one which is light and breezy.
- canzonettaA style of popular Italian secular vocal composition which originated around 1560, or a piece composed in this style