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I have a Fred Hersch album that includes a jazzy version of the Cantilena from the Flute Sonata with Toots Thielemans playing the solo line on harmonica.
Les anges musiciens Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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At the early service, the chancel choir will sing Larry Fleming's "Behold the Son" for the anthem and flutist Jill O'Neill will play Poulenc's "Cantilena" for the offertory, accompanied by music director Peter Sims on the piano.
Custom Search 2009
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Soprano Jennifer Edwards, another promising Peabody student, gave a luminous performance of the Cantilena from Villa-Lobos's "Bachiana Brasileira No. 5," with the BSO's cello section.
BSO's gala concert Saturday features Latin flavor and plenty of local talent 2010
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QUOTATION: The mere repetition of the Cantilena of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle.
Quotations 1919
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(The most important decision on this point will be found in the "Decreta authentica" under "Cantilena" and "Cantus".)
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Four lines, known as the "Cantilena Bellunese", also in rhymed couplets, inserted in a fragment of a chronicle, allude to the taking of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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A similar freely riming poem in lines of seven syllables is Villegas '_Cantilena_ (p. 17).
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Period of the Chansons de Geste -- social conditions of France as given by M. Léon Gautier -- "Cantilena of St. Eulalie" -- subjects of the
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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The mere repetition of the _Cantilena_ of lawyers cannot make it law, unless it can be traced to some competent authority; and if it be irreconcilable, to some clear legal principle.
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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Allegro, which is not meant to interest by means of Cantilena, but in which the restless incessant movement is intended to produce a certain excitement.
On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, Richard Wagner 1848
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