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Cantabile [kanˈtaːbile] is a term in music meaning to perform in a singing style. The word is taken from the Italian language and literally means "singable" or "songlike". [ 1 ] In instrumental music, it is a particular style of playing designed to imitate the human voice .
Definition Lacuna: gap: A silent pause in a piece of music Ossia: from o ("or") + sia ("that it be") A secondary passage of music which may be played in place of the original Ostinato: stubborn, obstinate: A repeated motif or phrase in a piece of music Pensato: thought out: A composed imaginary note Ritornello: little return
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
Cantabile is a musical term meaning literally "singable" or "songlike". Cantabile may also refer to: Cantabile (group), a British a cappella vocal quartet; Cantabile (symphonic suite), a work by Frederik Magle; Liuto cantabile, a ten-stringed mandocello; Cantabile, a collection of poems by Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
The symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music and one of the supreme achievements in the history of music. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] One of the best-known works in common practice music , [ 1 ] it stands as one of the most frequently performed symphonies in the world.
Giuseppe Verdi continued to adapt the cantabile–cabaletta formula to great emotional and dramatic effect, before largely abandoning it by 1862 as a solo piece with Don Carlo's "Egli è salvo" in "La forza del destino". [4] A famous Verdian cabaletta appears in his 1853 La traviata in act 1. It follows Violetta's pensive "È strano! è strano ...
The furious peroration sounds like nothing so much as a horde of demons struggling in a torrent of brandy, the music growing drunker and drunker. Pandemonium, delirium tremens, raving, and above all, noise worse confounded! The reception in New York was little better. A reviewer for the Musical Courier, March 13, 1889, wrote:
It is initially marked Allegretto sempre cantabile and is the longest of the Consolations with a total of 100 measures. It is the most technically demanding of the Consolations . [ 8 ] The piece has been described by Carl Lachmund , one of Liszt's students, as more characteristic of Liszt's style than the more renowned D ♭ major third ...