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Cantabile   Listen
noun
Cantabile  n.  (Mus.) A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; sometimes called cantilena.



adjective
Cantabile  adj.  (Mus.) In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.






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"Cantabile" Quotes from Famous Books



... cantabile! these and more are flashing to us from the procession, As it moves changing, a kaleidoscope divine it moves changing ...
— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman

... orkester tid blay; Adagio - allegro - andante cantabile. Ve sat in shtill commotion so dat a bin mighdt drops, Und de deers roon town der Breitmann's sheeks, mitwhiles he was ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland

... Sinfonie, die orkester tid blay; Adagio - allegro - andante cantabile. Ve sat in shtill commotion so dat a bin mighdt drops, Und de deers roon town der Breitmann's sheeks, mitwhiles he was ...
— The Breitmann Ballads • Charles G. Leland

... Phinehas ("For everything there is a Season"). The change from the seriousness of the preceding numbers is very abrupt, and the music of the chorus is decidedly of the conventional Italian drinking-song character. Eli appears and rebukes them, and after a cantabile aria ("Thou shouldst mark Iniquities"), a short chorus of Levites, for tenors and basses, ensues, introducing a simple, but well-sustained chorale for full chorus ("How mighty is Thy Name"). At this point the "Man of God" appears, rebuking the Levites ...
— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton

... of the cembalist (or, in the double concertos, two left [v.03 p.0128] hands) without disturbing the already complete score, is astonishing; and it fails only in the slow movements, which he prefers to leave obviously in the condition of an arrangement rather than to spoil their broad cantabile style by a too ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various



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