aria

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  1. noun A solo vocal piece with instrumental accompaniment, as in an opera.
  2. noun An air; a melody.

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  • [Footnote: This wonderfully beautiful aria is appended to my Life of Mozart.—Stuttgart, Bruckmaun, 1863.] —  The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol.1.
  • When the aria was at an end, he said, "Herr Mara, I give you one piece of advice, and I hope you will profit by it: never seize the arm of the director of an orchestra, or lay your account with getting at least half a dozen sound boxes ou the ear." —  The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol.1.
  • "I think I can do better than that Worf said, and began instructing the computer to retrieve the hard-video storage of the 28844 production of X and Y in which the soprano had declared her family in a blood feud with the tenor's due to a salary dispute and had killed k'Kharis onstage, before his aria was finished etiquette usually mandated letting the performance end first Sounds like a good one," Riker said. —  Diane Duane - Star Trek : The Next Generation - Dark Mirror
  • For a long time this aria was attributed to Bertoni, the composer, and Gluck was accused of plagiarizing it. —  Musical Memories
  • Moreover there will be a thunder-storm which is not likely to cease out of respect for an aria, and the effect of a recitative between two choruses will be incomparably better Munich, November 15, to his father. —  Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words
 

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duet ·  opera ·  quartet ·  sonata ·  dirge ·  symphony ·  soprano ·  declamation ·  soliloquy ·  overture ·  prelude ·  madrigal

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Italian, from Latin āera, accusative of āēr, air, from Greek āēr; see wer-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Italian, from Latin aër, air: see air, also air.
 

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