Crossword clues for cantilena
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cantabile \Can*ta"bi*le\, n. (Mus.) A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.
Wiktionary
n. (context music English) a vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style
Wikipedia
Cantilena is the second album recorded by the British jazz quartet, First House. It was released by ECM. The album presents a studio performance of leader and saxophonist Ken Stubbs with Django Bates on piano, Mick Hutton on bass and Martin France on drums, recorded over 2 days in March, 1989 in Norway.
Usage examples of "cantilena".
Aramayne, turning to take a handful of the little vapour-sniffers from Cantilena, blocked him also.
The sounds of insects, of which I am seldom conscious unless I have not heard them in some time, resumed, with a noise that reminded me of the tuning of the strings in the Blue Hall before the first cantilena began, a noise I sometimes used to listen to when I lay on my pallet near the open port of the apprentices' dormitory.
Quella frase si trasformò in una specie di cantilena, nella sua mente.