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- noun Plural form of
cantilena .
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Examples
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The cantilenas were a power in society; they caused the most powerful to tremble.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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Once I relished accompanying the bass line of the orchestra, but today I usually limit myself to taking a hand occasionally in energetic passages and to giving almost imperceptible harmonic support to some piano cantilenas.
A Mozart Player Gives Himself Advice Brendel, Alfred 1985
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[251] "Vivant omnes honeste, ut clerici, prout decet sanctos, non pugnantes, non scurrilia vel turpia loquentes, non cantilenas sive falulas de amasiis vel luxuriosis, aut ad libidinem sonantibus narrantes, cantantes aut libenter audientes."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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Wagner did not find it possible to get this continuity when he came to set to music the arguments amongst Wotan, Fricka and Freia: there are short cantilenas, but they are constantly broken by recitative.
Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913
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Wotan, Fricka and Freia: there are short cantilenas, but they are constantly broken by recitative.
Richard Wagner Composer of Operas John F. Runciman 1891
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For with all the range which these songs cover, their vocal quality is as noticeable as that of Italian cantilenas.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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Out of the great number of cantilenas dedicated to a single hero it happened that some poet had the happy thought of combining them into a single poem.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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"Our fathers had no epics, it is true, but they had popular chants, rapid, ardent and short, which are precisely what we have called cantilenas.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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Specimen historico criticum editionum italicarum saeculi XV.: in quo praeter ... Giovanni Battista Audiffredi, Mariano De Romanis 1794
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