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Definition of Cantabiles
1. cantabile [n] - See also: cantabile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantabiles
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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