Definition of Cantabiles

1. Noun. (plural of cantabile) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cantabiles

1. cantabile [n] - See also: cantabile

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantabiles

canrenone
cans
cansful
canso
cansos
canst
canstick
cansticks
cant
cant dog
cant hook
cant hooks
cant over
cant strip
cantabile
cantabiles (current term)
cantal
cantala
cantalas
cantalope
cantaloup
cantaloupe
cantaloupe vine
cantaloupes
cantaloupey
cantaloups
cantals
cantankerous
cantankerously
cantankerousness

Literary usage of Cantabiles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players by Oskar Bie, Ernest Edward Kellett, Edward Woodall Naylor (1899)
"The conclusion is formed by a modest movement which is put together like a mosaic out of a stormy quaver theme, two cantabiles, a syncopated motive, ..."

2. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: With a Selection from Her by Fanny Burney, Annie Raine Ellis (1907)
"Then she gave us two or three cantabiles, sung divinely, then she chaunted some church- music, in a style so nobly simple, and unadorned, that it stole into ..."

3. Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta: A Contemporary Account of the by Eusebio Francisco Kino (1919)
"... in this Californian language; and we said with the Holy Psalmist, cantabiles mihi erant justificaciones tuas in coro peregrinaciones mete.3™ 12. ..."

4. Thirty years' musical recollections by Henry Fothergill Chorley (1862)
"She gave the slow movements of her grand airs in the true, broad, sensitive style which Mozart's cantabiles demand; but, ..."

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