Definitions for cantabile

cantabile can·ta·bi·le

Spelling: [kahn-tah-bi-ley, -bee-, kuh n-; Italian kahn-tah
IPA: /kɑnˈtɑ bɪˌleɪ, -bi-, kən-; Italian kɑnˈtɑ biˌlɛ/

Cantabile is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 487 anagrams from letters in cantabile (aabceilnt).

Definitions for cantabile

adverb

  1. in a cantabile manner.

adjective

  1. songlike and flowing in style.

Origin of cantabile

1720-30; Italian Late Latin cantābilis worth singing, equivalent to Latin cantā(re) to sing (see cant1) + -bilis -ble

Examples for cantabile

Another species of dramatic music, the cantabile of the Italians, is equally neglected among us.

Wilhelmj drew from his instrument the noblest sounds I ever heard; not Joachim, not Ysaye excelled him in cantabile.

As a player his characteristic was the cantabile--the singing quality; and this he had beyond all players.

Again, in a cantabile passage do not make the mistake of using a touch that would produce the wrong quality of tone.

He executes the most difficult passages with the most extraordinary ease, and especially pours out his heart in the cantabile.

It is only in this way that I can produce the right kind of singing tone in cantabile passages.

Trio in D major, cantabile theme for violin, doubled by the viola in the octave below.

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

For postlude two measures from the cantabile of Chopin's "Funeral March" are used with droll effect.

After the exposition of the subject, the violin has figure-playing of an easy kind, while the violoncello has a cantabile theme.

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