Meanings of cantilena in English

There is a fragmentary cantilena which would make the fortune of a comic opera.

What a lifelike portrait Chopin drew in this "beautiful, deep-toned, love-laden cantilena"!

The question therefore comes to this: Does the sustained, the cantilena, predominate, or the rhythmical movement?

For example, consider the following verses from the cantilena of St. Eulalie, as given by M. Gautier, p. 65:

As regards technics, two things are to be studied: the staccato of the chords and the execution of the cantilena.

Where the cantilena appears, every melodic tone must stand apart from the tones of the accompaniment as if in "relief."

The adagio is one of those slow movements for which Beethoven was noted; the cantilena is lovely and the sentiment deep and tender.

He whispered it mezza voce, but it was incomparable in the cantilena, infinitely perfect in the phrasing of the structure, ideally beautiful, but FEMININE!

He was also well known as the cellist of the Ariosti Piano Trio and the Cantilena Soloists Ensemble.

For with all the range which these songs cover, their vocal quality is as noticeable as that of Italian cantilenas.

21, one of the finest of the collection, with its calming cantilena and palpitating quaver figure.

A Serenata must be regarded as a kind of Intermezzo, in the Cantilena manner, with an accompanying rhythm suggesting an ancient Spanish dance.

I was puzzled by the apparent flabbiness of Mozartian Melody (Cantilena) which I had been taught to regard as so delicately expressive.

As an unnecessary remark let me add that the small Magyar Cantilena of the Magnate (in the first number) requires a powerful voice.