Score direction asking an instrument to imitate the human voice

• Musical direction that means "lyrical" in Italian
• Melodious, as in singing — balance it (anag)
• Like a song from Cambridge before I left half out

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In music, cantabile , an Italian word, means literally "singable" or "songlike". In instrumental music, it is a particular style of playing designed to imitate the human voice . For 18th-century composers, cantabile is often synonymous with "cantando" (singing), ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. smooth and flowing [syn: singing ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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 .