cantilena

Definitions

Examples

• A similar freely riming poem in lines of seven syllables is Villegas' Cantilena (p. 17).

• The term cantilena is given to any short piece of verse intended to be set to music (p. 17).

• Almost any really good melodic line, especially a cantilena, will sound with a fitting harmonic development.

• The successors of these supple singers even learned to sing Richard Strauss with broad cantilena effects.

• The accent here too is perfectly pleasing, intelligible, and expressive; and I like their cantilena vastly.