Cantabile

Word CANTABILE
Character 9
Hyphenation can ta bi le
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Cantabile"

What do we mean by cantabile?

In a smooth, lyrical, flowing style. Used chiefly as a direction. adverb & adjective

A cantabile passage or movement. noun

In music, executed in the style of a song; flowing; sustained: lyrical.

A piece or passage of music in a flowing, song-like style. noun

In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando. adjective

A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena. noun

A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a lyrical manner noun

A passage having this mark noun

Played in this style; singingly, lyrically adverb

Describing a passage having this mark; singable, lyrical adjective

Smooth and flowing adjective

A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a lyrical manner

A passage having this mark

Synonyms and Antonyms for Cantabile

The word "cantabile" in example sentences

As Joplin famously noted of all his compositions, "It is never right to play 'ragtime' fast," while his concert waltz "Bethena" adds the direction "cantabile" - "as if singing." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some of these arias were written in a virtuoso style, with rich vocal lines and complex instrumental accompaniment; others were cantabile, meaning simpler in style and intended mainly to highlight the feelings or thoughts of a character, with little ornamentation and the instrumentation kept in the background. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As all of you who watch this show should know, "cantabile" means "in a singing style," and that is exactly what the first eight bars of this piece sound like. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He contrived a thrilling balance between cantabile and cutting edge, with a daring line in tiny pianissimos. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Kungsbacka Trio are embarking on a series, and this first volume includes the famous "Gypsy Rondo", dispatched with mirth, and some lovely movements such as the serene Allegro, ma dolce of the D major trio and the more severe Andante cantabile of the E flat minor trio; in the F sharp minor trio there's a version of a movement from his Symphony No 102. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It is a sorry fact of today's opera world that homogenized loudness is often valued above individualized refinement, yet Mr. Calleja's plangent cantabile phrasing, in which each note is connected in a seamless golden line, recalls the old masters like Gigli whose voice his most resembles and more recent exponents of exquisite vocal art, like Carlo Bergonzi and the late Alain Vanzo. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2012)

In addition to the smooth transitions between both the divergent, heterophonically-interwoven tunes and between tonal, modal and atonal pivots of the different sections, Olivero also presents a rhythmic dichotomy, between slow-paced, rhythmically flexible cantabile sections and harshly syncopated, rhythmic intersecting phrases. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the cantabile ideal fell afoul of early recording technology, which was too insensitive to capture its delicate beauty. ❋ James F. Penrose (2008)

The performers of the Golden Age, Mr. Hamilton explains, cultivated a cantabile or "singing" tone, modeled after the leading singers of the early 19th century. ❋ James F. Penrose (2008)

Yup, then i watched nodame cantabile on my bro's com. ❋ Yanxious (2007)

As the various forms of music, already named as common to the opera and oratorio, developed in the former, so in proportion they expanded and became freer in the latter; those portions which had been mainly founded upon plain song became more expressive and dramatic, and the melody assumed a flowing and cantabile character. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ George Ainslie Hight (N/A)

I do not pose as the obstinate advocate of parallel stringing, although I believe that, so far, it is the most logical and the best; the best, because the left hand division of the instrument is free from a preponderance of dissonant high partials, and we hear the light and shade, as well as the cantabile of that part, better than by any overstrung scale that I have yet met with. ❋ Various (N/A)

The _cantabile_ includes much of the most exquisite music of the Italian masters, and we know of nothing more touchingly beautiful, throughout the whole range of musical composition, than many of the ❋ Various (N/A)

In the well-known song, "Where the bee sucks, there lurk I," passages occur taken almost note for note from a _cantabile_ by Lampugnani. ❋ Various (N/A)

That they also had musical sentiment or expression, is authoritatively proved from the emotion caused in their auditors by their performance of a slow movement or _cantabile_. ❋ W. E. Haslam (N/A)

But at the words, "For He is slow to anger, and merciful," this should cease, and the succeeding phrases be given with all the graces that are permissible in _cantabile_ singing; not in the hard, dry manner affected by some of the modern tenors in oratorio. ❋ W. E. Haslam (N/A)

The artist will therefore not follow too closely the printed version; but following the evident indications for a pathetic and expressive _cantabile_ will perform it thus: ❋ W. E. Haslam (N/A)

Here I may point out that in _cantabile_ phrases the stream of sound, notwithstanding its division into syllables by the organs of articulation -- lips, tongue, etc. -- should pour forth smoothly and uninterruptedly. ❋ W. E. Haslam (N/A)

Here his power of providing new and apparently necessary material for the left hand 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 polyphonic bass. ❋ Various (N/A)

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