How To Use Obbligato In A Sentence

  • It is more baroque than the first in that for obbligato piano it substitutes real interchange between ripieno strings and concertino quartet.
  • The cor anglais and violin obbligato in the duet for male alto and tenor, Wie selig, with its thirds and lyrical highlights was particularly effective.
  • 'A gentle obbligato to the life and death struggle in Lewis's study? Twin Moons
  • They were customarily for solo voice with continuo, but pieces for up to five voices were also composed and obbligato parts sometimes included.
  • If you want to sample his singing, try "Ich habe genug" on his Bach cantatas CD, with its quietly anguished oboe obbligato. CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review
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  • The clarinet was a big deal much earlier in New Orleans Jazz, where it played a mostly obbligato role (see also the page on heterophony). Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Recitative comes in two main forms, semplice or secco, which comprises most of the dialogue, and accompagnato or obbligato, which is reserved for passages requiring particular dramatic emphasis, though fully spoken parts (parlante), were not uncommon, particularly in Mozart. 'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
  • Recitative comes in two main forms, semplice or secco, which comprises most of the dialogue, and accompagnato or obbligato, which is reserved for passages requiring particular dramatic emphasis, though fully spoken parts (parlante), were not uncommon, particularly in Mozart. 'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
  • Her voice joined in; softly working it's way through the obbligato, increasing in volume gradually.
  • And since it's rare that a celebrity performer takes on any of these challenges, I'd like to applaud violinist Hilary Hahn for her latest recording in which she joins forces with two of the world's most artistic singers in a dozen Bach arias with violin obbligato. Hilary Hahn: Violin And Voices Entwined In Bach
  • Again the wind spoke loud around the hogan, raising an obbligato mixture of hoots and shrieks. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
  • Agrippina," with a plangent oboe obbligato from Marc Schachman, came as a reminder of how eloquent Daniels can be. SFGate: Top News Stories
  • The national anthem at last week's home opener at Fenway Park — performed by a Boston Pops contingent — included the now de rigueur obbligato of a military jet flyover. Flams and drags
  • The recital concludes with a rarely heard aria with cello obbligato from Arianna, written for the soprano castrato Carlo Scalzi.
  • Con gli attori ho avuto un ottimo rapporto ... ad eccezione del "giovane" scelto, obbligato e protetto dal figlio di Lombardo (un disastro)! Archive 2009-11-01
  • The sequence of choruses, solos and duets accompanied by muted strings with, in turn, obbligato solo flute, oboe and horn, all supply inspiration and underline the work's deep spirituality.
  • A smaller instrumentation is adopted with English Horn obbligato (as if a shadow of the storyteller). In Part II, the singer 'jumps out' from being a storyteller and becomes the fisherman himself.
  • I have often found that triangle an irritant and tend to avoid this concerto, but here it gives a delicate and piquant touch to the orchestral sonority, instead of asserting itself as an obbligato second soloist.
  • The outstanding soloist in the concerto was 26-year-old Alec Frank-Gemmill, playing a valveless instrument, as were the obbligato horn section, conjuring misty overtones and harmonics, mellow in mood as well as raw. LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
  • It is more baroque than the first in that for obbligato piano it substitutes real interchange between ripieno strings and concertino quartet.
  • Recitative comes in two main forms, semplice or secco, which comprises most of the dialogue, and accompagnato or obbligato, which is reserved for passages requiring particular dramatic emphasis, though fully spoken parts (parlante), were not uncommon, particularly in Mozart. 'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
  • Piano and cello are given equal roles in the Sonata in A (Op. 69), a break with the 18th-century format of a piano sonata accompanied by an instrumental obbligato.
  •  The wind itself answered in a kind of obbligato descant: The Witch is dead! Son of a Witch
  • It is not sung, but only declaimed, and the music is like an obbligato recitative.

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