arioso
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There are various sung lines in a kind of arioso, but mostly in the background.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2016
Recitative and arioso passages allow the singers to barrel through words at a tremendous clip.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2015
The obbligato viole d’amore parts in the bass arioso “Betrachte, meine Seel’,” were ravishingly played.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2014
Her vocal lines are mostly routine arioso, while the ensemble writing is most effective when thinned to a single line – a teetering piano solo, perhaps, or a thrummed cello.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2010
In arioso trills and graces Ye never stray, But gravissimo, solemn basses Ye hum away.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Short ariettas and ariosos keep “Serse,” a comic love story, moving along.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2022
His sound is drawn not from the Caucasus or Russia but from a rich well of Western European Romantic melody, and his ariosos are the opera’s best-known excerpts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2018
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