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Melody simpler than an aria
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cavatina
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) an operatic song in slow tempo, either complete in itself or (e.g., in Bellini and Verdi) followed by a faster, more resolute section: hence 2 (context music English) a rather slow, song-like instrumental movement; the title, ...
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Cavatina (Italian diminutive of cavata , the producing of tone from an instrument, plural cavatine ) is a musical term, originally meaning a short song of simple character, without a second strain or any repetition of the air . It is now frequently applied ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cavatina \Ca`va*ti"na\, n. [It.] (Mus.) Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.
Usage examples of cavatina.
This cavatina has been the show piece of hundreds of singers ever since it was written.
Since then, since the pair he saved had run home and sang the story in a quickly constructed cavatina to stress its truth, Judah has been tolerated.
The vast parking field, designed to accommodate a hundred commercial ships the size of the Cavatina, was two-thirds empty, with the majority of the ships still parked there of the same flowing-metal Mrach design as the aircars.
The only ship, aside from theirs, to land since the Cavatina entered the system.
If Bronski wanted the Cavatina grounded, his first call should have been to the spaceport tower, not to the ship.
After that, the only other thing left for you to do will be to lie low until the Cavatina gets here.
Mrach embassy there and taken Fibbit back to Ulu once the Cavatina caught up with us.
The Cavatina was supposed to have gone directly to Dorcas, not come out here looking for him.
This cavatina has been the show piece of hundreds of singers ever since it was written.
It turns out Dad deliberately ordered him and the Cavatina away from Mra-mig about two and a half weeks ago.
Accompanying this euphonious mingling of basses and baritones and quavering sopranos, rising, falling, came a windy ghost's cavatina Steve recognized from his GI days as a small hand pump organ.