The canso or canço is a song style used by the troubadours. A song is a Musical composition. Songs contain vocal parts that are performed 'sung' and generally feature Words ( Lyrics) commonly followed A troubadour ( IPA:, originally) was a composer and performer of Occitan Lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100&ndash1350 It consists of three parts. The first stanza is the exordium, where the composer explains his purpose. The main body of the song occurs in the following stanzas, and usually draw out a variety of relationships with the exordium. The canso can end with either a tornada or envoi. A tornada ( Occitan for "turned" or "twisted" in Lyric poetry, refers to a final shorter stanza ( cobla) which In Poetry, an envoi is a short Stanza at the end of a Poem used either to address an imagined or actual person or to comment on the preceding body of the This part usually bring the piece to some form of resolution. A tornada is a shortened stanza, containing only a latter part of the standard stanza used up to that point. Some cansos contain more the one tornada.