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Integral instrumental part
Answer for the clue "Integral instrumental part ", 9 letters:
obbligato
Alternative clues for the word obbligato
- Essential part of a piece of music
- Lab too big for change? It has to come through
- Indispensable, in music
- Ordinary 1D got bail-out that must be used in performance
- Persistent but subordinate motif
- A part of the score that must be performed without change or omission
- Instrumental part integral to a piece of music — I go to blab (anag)
Word definitions for obbligato in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a persistent but subordinate motif [syn: obligato ] a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission [syn: obligato ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In classical music obbligato usually describes a musical line that is in some way indispensable in performance. Its opposite is the marking ad libitum . It can also be used, more specifically, to indicate that a passage of music was to be played exactly ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
musical instruction, 1724, from Italian obbligato , literally "obligated," from Latin obligatus , past participle of obligare "to bind" (see oblige ). In reference to a necessary accompaniment by a single instrument.
Usage examples of obbligato.
Robert had grown quite used to running through his morning post to a Nevil obbligato.
He can hear the noise of the Strip a block away: high-db rock music with yelping electronic toms and seismic bass, obbligato horn honks from the traffic jam, a volley of mystifying animalian howls.
He had accompanied the dialogue with a coloratura obbligato particular to Siamese vocal cords.
There was an obbligato passage in Nelle's first song which she foozled on every attempt.
Bethany's flute obbligatos had been remarkable, matching Sydra's voice to perfection.
We took simple melody lines and set chords to them, arranged them for multi-voices or instruments, added solo instrumental verses and obbligatos, and in one case, turned the piece into a round.
Guillermo had records, and he sang along with them, and at work on the road crew he'd join in with any man's song and harmonize with it or sing an obbligato high above the melody, a soaring tenor that took the roof off his head and filled the clouds.