Definitions for cantilena

cantilena can·ti·le·na

Spelling: [kan-tl-ee-nuh]
IPA: /ˌkæn tlˈi nə/

Cantilena is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 368 anagrams from letters in cantilena (aaceilnnt).

Definitions for cantilena

noun

  1. a simple, lyric, melodic passage for voice or instrument.

Origin of cantilena

1730-40; Italian Latin cantilēna refrain, perhaps by dissimilation from *cantilēla, derivative of cantus song; see cant1

Examples for cantilena

The second movement in six-eight rhythm, is another specimen of the Italian cantilena.

Unfortunately, the cantilena in the second number still points backward.

A man can sing a 'cantilena' in the fields, but in church it is the women who sing.

The cantabile slow movement, modeled somewhat after the Italian cantilena, was his.

A similar freely riming poem in lines of seven syllables is Villegas' cantilena (p. 17).

At the first cantilena on the strings I nearly jumped out of my seat.

Almost any really good melodic line, especially a cantilena, will sound with a fitting harmonic development.

The accent here too is perfectly pleasing, intelligible, and expressive; and I like their cantilena vastly.

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

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