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Definition of Ariettas
1. arietta [n] - See also: arietta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ariettas
Literary usage of Ariettas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"The second lot consists of a Concerto in E flat, the Fantasia with full orchestra
and chorus—and 3 ariettas which should all appear on the 1st November, ..."
2. The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1921)
"The second installment, he said, should be a Concerto in E-flat, the Choral
Fantasia and three ariettas. The third, the Characteristic Sonata "Farewell, ..."
3. George Alexander Macfarren: His Life, Works, and Influence by Henry Charles Banister (1891)
"These twelve ariettas are all very short and simple melodies—as fresh as violets
just gathered, and as unpretending as young girls before they have been ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1758)
"If you was to detach from his pieces the airs, ariettas, and the cho- ruli'-s he
has thrown into fome of them, ..."
5. Celebrated Saloons by Sophie Nichalut de Lavalette Gay, Delphine Gay Girardin, Emile de Girardin (1851)
"In the meantime, the French opera, which became the delight of the fashionable
world, took the place of the tragic opera and ariettas, of those melancholy ..."
6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"... ANTOINE, his junior by four years, was also born at Avignon, and educated at
the Maîtrise, but forsook ecclesiastical plain-song for stage ariettas. ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and, enlivening his efficacious dialogue with common sense aphorisms, he
combined them with arias and ariettas that appealed to the many. ..."
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