obligato

• One of her most illustrious ancestors   performed in Rome on the occasion of the Emperor Nero's famous violin   obligato, and subsequently appeared in London when a large part of   that large metropolis succumbed to the fiery element. —  Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions
• (Tomorrow -- when the sun will rise again), the first third was written for violin, and the violin continues (providing most of the obligato with very light additional orchestration) with the soprano (Anna Netrebko). —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
• Producer Matt Bayles (Mastodon / Isis / Botch) clearly had a bitch of a task balancing Giant Squid's natural rawness with some of the band's more grandiose ideas - Lorraine Rath's flute obligato gets lost in the droning opening section of "Sevengill," and a cameo vocal by Anneke van Giersbergen (formerly of The Gathering) nearly finds the same fate. —  MetalSucks
• The last important aria in the work ("The Trumpet shall sound"), for bass with trumpet obligato, will always be admired for its beauty and stirring effect. —  The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
• One of her most illustrious ancestors performed in Rome on the occasion of the Emperor Nero's famous violin obligato, and subsequently appeared in London when a large part of that large metropolis succumbed to the fiery element. —  Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1

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