cantabile
/kahn-tah-bi-ley, -bee-, kuhn-; Italian kahn-tah-bee-le/US // kɑnˈtɑ bɪˌleɪ, -bi-, kən-; Italian kɑnˈtɑ biˌlɛ //UK // (kænˈtɑːbɪlɪ) music //
坎肩,坎特布雷尔,坎特,坎特布雷
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : songlike and flowing in style.
adv.副词 adverb
- 1
- : in a cantabile manner.
Examples
She has a very excellent violin, a Stradivari, and in the cantabile draws from it a tolerable tone; but that is her only merit.
This 10-syllable measure is cantabile, and its phrases are too short and too regular to make good recitative verse.
The finished beauty of the violin 'voice' is a round, sustained, absolutely smooth cantabile tone.
In the two latter songs the simple Cantabile is embellished by bravura passages, which are wanting altogether in the first.
The Adagio cantabile is one of the purest examples of a style of music which has become a thing of the past.
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