obligato


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a persistent but subordinate motif

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a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission

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There will be two cantatas for alto voice and strings, with the organ taking the solo obligato role in the arias.
The highlight, "Du dieu d'amour" gives Sly a long-sustained line with marvelous obligato gamba work from Melisande Corriveau, beautifully joined by Luc Beausejour at the harpsichord.
She will play the flute obligato in the Arnold Bax piece, Now Is The Time Of Christmas and she will also feature in The Holly And the Ivy by John L Gardner, adapted by John Rutter.
Der Part der "Viola obligato" ist eine Orchester-Stimme.
El problema surgio cuando una ley establecio la obligato riedad de compartir los negocios de los europeos con socios marroquies.
From the point of view of our theme, however, it is worth mentioning that apart from a series of pieces surviving in manuscript, two of Brentner's collections contain arias that were akin--as we know--to the solo concerto both in structure and in this concrete case in the use of obligato instruments in the accompaniment.
Warneke played the trumpet obligato (sic) accompaniment, but the effect was weak, because it was left to the piano to represent the rest of the band parts, and that is more than a pianoforte can do.
The liturgical performance of mixed chorus anthems with the accompaniment of strings, organ, and obligato winds resonated continuously in the tiny and isolated churches of coastal Labrador for over 200 years.
Admirers of Rossetti's poetry may find this the series' most important volume, for it includes many observations about the verse he gathered, rewrote, and recomposed for his Poems (1870), as well as a critical obligato of commentary--often generous and perceptive--on the work of Tennyson, Morris, Browning, Swinburne, Philip Marston, Thomas Hake, and others.
The brilliant recorder player Caren Buse played the graceful obligato solo on treble recorder in the pastoral Domine Deus section and the tones of solo soprano and recorder perfectly matched each other in volume and quality of timbre.
This assumption that of all the hues of God whiteness alone is inherently and obviously better than brownness or tan leads to curious acts; even the sweeter souls of the dominant world as they discourse with me on weather, weal, and woe are continually playing above their actual words an obligato of tune and tone, saying.
Enquiry formed a perfect obligato to the incessant clamorings for
One of the most touching vignettes is a description of Ella Fitzgerald breaking into What A Little Moonlight Will Do on their touring bus and of band members, one by one, sensitively adding instrumental obligato and accompaniment, "...