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A part of the score that must be performed without change or omission
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obligato
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a persistent but subordinate motif [syn: obbligato ] a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission [syn: obbligato ] [also: obligati (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obligato \Ob"li*ga"to\, a. [It.] See Obbligato .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of obbligato English)
Usage examples of obligato.
He seemed to be in a mood of exhilaration and monopolised the conversation but he did not once refer to the shrill obligato from the other room.
He turned and inspected himself in his office mirror, the tune an obligato over his thoughts.
The art of obligato pedal playing he brought to a point which it had never before reached and scarcely afterward surpassed.
He heard Conniston singing to the obligato of the running water, and, with eyes half closed, leaned back and watched his smoke swirl ceilingward.
All the while that Tukes talked, The Shadow was leaning well within the door, straining to catch the wavery words above the obligato of the tempestuous wind.
It seemed that such an obligato had come with the voice across the telephone and now Margo could remember a curious effect at the finish of that talk.
The voices of the children outside reached her as a wordless, tuneless obligato, which she heard subconsciously and responded to by relaxing the tired wrinkles between her eyes.
She bounced into his sled, plastered herself against the wall, the brackets digging into her shoulders, wincing against the shrill obligato of Moksoon's unheeded warning devices.