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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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cantabile" Quotes from Famous Books



... von Aurnhammer's after dinner nearly every day. The young woman is a fright, but she plays ravishingly, though she lacks the true singing style in the cantabile; she is ...
— Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words • Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel

... its pleasant music makes, As the descendant waters roll along, In rhythmic flow and dulcet cantabile, In various concord and harmonious pitch, Pursuant of its journey to the sea; The murmuring treble of the rivulet, Uniting with the deep and ponderous bass Of torrent wild and foaming cataract; The thunderous, ...
— Mountain idylls, and Other Poems • Alfred Castner King

... with an emphatic announcement of the principal motive of the act (the "daylight"—No. 3) in the full orchestra without brass. A cantabile strain in the bass wood-wind continued in the violoncelli with a broken triplet accompaniment in the strings seems to tell of the expected meeting. The new motive (No. 9) is heard in its proper instrument, the flute, but gives way to No. 10, which is worked in conjunction ...
— Wagner's Tristan und Isolde • George Ainslie Hight



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