cantilene

"Tosca" in this opera, it has nevertheless a certain value for its true local colouring, united to the grace and the broad, flowing cantilene peculiar to the Italian composer.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

Saracenic -- bears the features of its wooden parent, so does our modern instrumental music reproduce the physiognomy of its origin, uniting the flowing cantilene of the voice with the marked rhythm of the dance, and we may notice in any modern instrumental composition how the two are contrasted together, now the one feature predominating, now the other.

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

_Gesangsscene_, its beautiful _cantilene_ and pure serenity, may profit by them.

Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Frederick Herman Martens 1903

Further, there is associated with these chords, or there may be said to grow out of them, a cantilene in the upper voice, which appears in syncopated form opposite to the strong beats of the bass.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

This cantilene begins on a weak beat, and produces numerous suspensions, which, in view of the time of their entrance, appear as so many retardations and delayals of melodic tones.

Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

The soft, rounded Italian contours and sweet sonorousness of some of Chopin's cantilene cannot escape the notice of the observer.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

What subdued the composer's individuality was no doubt the violoncello, which, however, is well provided with grateful cantilene.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

Chopin and Madame Freppa seated themselves by turns at the pianoforte; I, too, did my best; Bellini made remarks, and accompanied himself in one or other of his cantilene, rather in illustration of what he had been saying than for the purpose of giving a performance of them.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

The tone of voice is peculiar; it is pitched in the usual savage key, modified by the twang of the chapel and by the cantilene of the Yankee -- originally

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

We may, I think, safely conclude that the lines above given were the commencement of the _cantilene teatrales turpes_ et _seculares_, which the good bishop wished to deprive his clergy of all excuse for singing, by providing them with pious hymns to the same airs; thinking, I suppose, like

Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852