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Cantabile is used as a noun to mean the first half of a double aria, followed by a cabaletta.
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The swift center section of his Adagio cantabile does just that.
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Op 18 No 5 has a deceptively airy wit, pulled ineluctably towards the weighty Andante cantabile.
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It is not only one style, there is a quick tremolo, slow tremolo, cantabile tremolo, electric tremolo.
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I don't know that I've ever heard the Andante cantabile second movement played this slowly, but it worked.
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Equally comfortable were the baroque concerti, with familiar harmonies and soothing cantabile lines.
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The Scherzo bristled with eldritch energy, and the lovely Andante cantabile had the character of an operatic scene.
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He contrived a thrilling balance between cantabile and cutting edge, with a daring line in tiny pianissimos.
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The cantabile movement would be slower and more free-form to contrast with the structured and generally faster cabaletta.
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  • Smooth and flowing
  • Cantabile is a musical term meaning literally "singable" or "songlike" (Italian). It has several meanings in different contexts. In instrumental music, it indicates a particular style of playing designed to imitate the human voice. ...
  • Cantabile - The London Quartet is a British a cappella vocal quartet.
  • Cantabile is a suite of music production software programs developed by Topten Software. The first stable build was released in April 2009, and currently has 32-bit and 64-bit versions available. ...
  • Cantabile is a work composed from 2004 to 2009 by Frederik Magle. It consists of three symphonic poems (or movements) based on poems written by Henrik the Prince Consort of Denmark published in his book Cantabile. ...
  • A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a lyrical manner; A passage having this mark; describing a passage having this mark; singable, lyrical; played in this style; singingly, lyrically
  • [kahn-tah-bee-lay] (Italian) "Singing." Music performed in a singing style. The term can be added to a tempo marking (andante cantabile, for example) or placed over a melodic line.
  • An expression (another one taken from "cantare") which asks the performer to sing or play in a sweetly singing manner.
  • In singing style (lyrical and flowing)