How the gliding cantilena in sixths and thirds of the minuet and the serpentining chromatic passages in the last movement of the last-mentioned work must have flattered his inmost soul!
His most celebrated innovation was that of the Nocturne, a sentimental cantilena for the pianoforte, in which a somewhat Byronic sentiment is expressed in a high-bred and elegant style.
A cantilena is at the same time a recitation and an ode.
For example, consider the following verses from the cantilena of St. Eulalie, as given by M.
Thus opera came into possession of a simple and sustained melody, patterned after the cantilena of the violin; and it was employed for marking the successive points of the dramatic action.
The adagio is one of those slow movements for which Beethoven was noted; the cantilena is lovely and the sentiment deep and tender.
There is a fragmentary cantilena which would make the fortune of a comic opera.
At the first cantilena on the strings I nearly jumped out of my seat.
Where the cantilena appears, every melodic tone must stand apart from the tones of the accompaniment as if in "relief.
To develop a fine cantilena his "Songs Without Words" of slower motion, for instance, are just the thing.
What sane pianist would, for instance, attempt to play a cantilenawith the same appealing sensuousness as the most mediocre 'cellist can do with the greatest ease?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cantilena" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
