cantabile

[ kahn-tah-bi-ley, -bee-, kuhn-; Italian kahn-tah-bee-le ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

cantabile

/ kænˈtɑːbɪlɪ /

1720–30; < Italian < Late Latin cantābilis worth singing, equivalent to Latin cantā ( re ) to sing ( cant ¹ ) + -bilis -ble

Italian, from Late Latin cantābilis, from Latin cantāre to sing

She has a very excellent violin, a Stradivari, and in the cantabile draws from it a tolerable tone; but that is her only merit.

This 10-syllable measure is cantabile, and its phrases are too short and too regular to make good recitative verse.

The finished beauty of the violin 'voice' is a round, sustained, absolutely smooth cantabile tone.

In the two latter songs the simple Cantabile is embellished by bravura passages, which are wanting altogether in the first.

The Adagio cantabile is one of the purest examples of a style of music which has become a thing of the past.

April 24, 2024gallimaufry

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