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Meanings of cantabile in English

Smooth and flowing.

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        1
        Primo uomo, un musico, Cicognani, a fine voice, and a beautiful cantabile.
        The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
        2
        The cantabile she certainly will never forget, being her natural bent.
        The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
        3
        The cantabile is nearly always delivered with sloppiness of sentiment.
        Chopin : the Man and His Music
        4
        He took infinite pains to teach the pupil this legato, cantabile way of playing.
        Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
        5
        I have just taught her an andantino cantabile of Bach's.
        The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
        6
        Weber's singing, on the contrary, goes to the heart, and she prefers a cantabile.
        The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
        7
        This performance had all the power, virtuosity and cantabile beauty that you could ask for.
        Radio NZ
        8
        He is too apt to fall into the cantabile.
        The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
        9
        To flutes' clear notes and sounding harps' cantabile.
        Leaves of Grass
        10
        As a player his characteristic was the cantabile-thesinging quality; and this he had beyond all players.
        From the Easy Chair, Volume 1
        11
        Don't forget the cadenzas and the cantabile.
        The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
        12
        Adagio molto e cantabile The Adagio seems to suspend time as two long melodies unfold in ever-increasing beauty.
        Radio NZ
        13
        Somewhat between the cantabile type and the scherzo is to be mentioned the "Table Song," No.
        The Masters and Their Music / A series of illustrative programs ...
        14
        But if you're expecting early 20th-century attitudes to vibrato and cantabile playing, you won't find them consistently here.
        The Irish Times
        15
        His forte was the cantabile and his finest effects were those in mezza voce, expressive of intense suppressed feeling.
        Chapters of Opera / Being historical and critical observations a...
        16
        More nearly a translation, and more in the cantabile style, is the version of a Scotch Presbyterian minister, Rev.
        The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
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