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- noun Plural form of
cavatina .
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Examples
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While Italiana hewed to convention by producing a laugh-fest of comedic plot entanglements, catchy melodies, and high-flying solos, Turk goes a step further by integrating music into the action with its sophisticated ensembles and short cavatinas.
Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011
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While Italiana hewed to convention by producing a laugh-fest of comedic plot entanglements, catchy melodies, and high-flying solos, Turk goes a step further by integrating music into the action with its sophisticated ensembles and short cavatinas.
Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011
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While Italiana hewed to convention by producing a laugh-fest of comedic plot entanglements, catchy melodies, and high-flying solos, Turk goes a step further by integrating music into the action with its sophisticated ensembles and short cavatinas.
Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011
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While Italiana hewed to convention by producing a laugh-fest of comedic plot entanglements, catchy melodies, and high-flying solos, Turk goes a step further by integrating music into the action with its sophisticated ensembles and short cavatinas.
Rodney Punt: A Turk in Italy Comes to Town in an Airstream Trailer Rodney Punt 2011
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She has masters of every kind for her education in order to become a lady comme il faut, but she cannot forget her freedom, and her dear soldiers, and instead of singing solfeggios and cavatinas, she is caught warbling her
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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Human life is a continuous whole, one action leads naturally on to another, without any break, and to attempt to range the actions of men and women under schemes of arias, cavatinas, duets, choruses, each existing for itself and sharply separated from all others, can only render them unintelligible and ridiculous.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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Pigeonwing, and could sing cavatinas and galop galops with the best of them.
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While I sang Italian cavatinas, Landor remained away from the piano, pleased, but not satisfied.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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Notwithstanding these defects {349} the opera pleases; it has a brilliant introduction, as well as nice chorus-pieces and cavatinas.
The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley
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As it came before the lights were up, a great overture with a crescendo was as necessary as cavatinas, duets and ensembles: they came to hear the singers and not to be present at an opera.
Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919
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