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Definition of Cantabile
1. Adjective. Smooth and flowing.
Definition of Cantabile
1. a. In a melodious, flowing style; in a singing style, as opposed to bravura, recitativo, or parlando.
2. n. A piece or passage, whether vocal or instrumental, peculiarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.
Definition of Cantabile
1. Noun. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a lyrical manner ¹
2. Noun. (music) A passage having this mark ¹
3. Adverb. (music) played in this style; singingly, lyrically ¹
4. Adjective. (music) describing a passage having this mark; singable, lyrical ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cantabile
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantabile
Literary usage of Cantabile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"ANDANTE cantabile—TSCHAIKOWSKY ["World's Best Music," Vol. IV, p. 1029.]
Tschaikowsky was the greatest of the Russian composers. He used many folk-songs in ..."
2. Manual of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical: With an Introduction by D by Daniel Huntington (1879)
"Aria cantabile.—Aria di portamento. this reformation of the musical drama. ...
The first and highest class is the aria cantabile, so called by pre-eminence, ..."
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