An obbligato clarinet goes with the voice, and the strictly concertante treatment of this instrument gives its chief interest to the musical working-out of the song.
His own compositions only were performed; he conducted two symphonies, as yet unpublished, and then Madame Duschek sang the air composed for Storace with obbligato pianoforte (505 K.
In the printed score there are twenty-six pieces, not counting the overture; but the obbligato recitatives are counted separately here, and not in the original score.
Nevertheless, considered musically it is of great beauty, and the voices are most effectively supported by obbligato solo instruments, which are never elsewhere used in exactly the same way by Mozart.
A very different impression is made by the bass air with obbligato double-bass, composed by Mozart for two professional friends.
The term obbligato or obbligato accompaniment is also used for an independent instrumental solo accompanying a vocal piece.
The accompaniment may be obbligato or ad libitum, according as it forms an essential part of the composition or not.
Amy had a new song for baritone, with a violin obbligato and the usual piano accompaniment, and Cope was to sing it.
This bravura air with its trumpetobbligato still remains a favourite with competent vocalists and discriminating audiences.
Both Arne and Handel wrote special obbligato parts for him.
The orchestra of Mozart's two last Litanies is just as elaborate and careful as that of his operas, and the later one does not only employ obbligato solo instruments, but in many of its sections approaches modern instrumentation.
In the second minuet the four horns are especially prominent; in the third movement, an allegretto, the flute is obbligato and the horns are silent; in the first and last movements all the instruments work together.
Mozart's Lauretanian Litany in E flat major is a solo, withobbligato alto trombones.
It is curious that the opportunity for an obbligato recitative (for instance, at the description of the harmony of the spheres) is never taken advantage of; the long speeches are all in plain recitative.
For one concert, Wolfgang composed an orchestral piece after the manner of a "Concerto grosso," in which a clavier obbligato was introduced with the other instruments and called it a "Galimathias musicum.
The second air (9) is interesting through the obbligato treatment of the wind instruments, the flute competing with the voice in passages.
You know that the performers do not sing, but declaim, and the music is like an obbligato recitative.
The song in "Idomeneo" with obbligato violin was composed for him.
The organ occurs as an obbligato instrument only in one of these sonatas (329 K.
The second air (12) is a cavatina, having two verses repeated with trifling alterations, and accompanied by four obbligato wind instruments, viz.
He commissioned Mozart to write a trio with obbligato flute, which the latter promised to do.
Sembrich sang an aria; then came upon the stage and played a violin obbligato to Mme.
Sometimes, as in "Erforsche mich Gott," there is a violin obbligato above the voice parts in the final four-part chorale.
It is in several parts; it admits of no obbligato instruments, and its subjects are set to a text of the Bible, or to a verse of a hymn.
The prelude in E forms the obbligato organ part of the opening chorus of the cantata "Wir danken dir.
In some cases Bach writes an organ obbligato part in addition to the "continuo," or figured bass.
In all Bach's church compositions in which there is an organ obbligato part, there is another organ part for the continuo.
If there was an organ obbligato part, it would be played on this manual, while another person played the continuo on the chief organ.
Of the means by which Bach attained to such an altitude as a composer for the Organ we may notice his harmonic treatment of the old Church modes, his use of the obbligato pedal, and his original registration.
The Great Preludes and Fugues, with obbligato pedal.
Those which I include here are an exception and require the obbligato pedal.
Bach always played the Organ so, adding the obbligato pedal, which few organists know how to use properly.
Six Sonatas, or Trios, for two manuals and anobbligato pedal.
There is a piano cadenza, and the theme comes back by way of the strings, minus double-basses, against an ascending obbligato from the piano.
The clarinet offers an obbligato of arpeggios when the first theme returns.
In an instant her brother had caught up his violin; he had been tuning it while they had been talking--and began to improvise an obbligato with the confidence of a master of the instrument.
What a lively interest Haydn, especially, took in the violoncello is proved by the fact that he used it as an obbligato in two of his Symphonies.
The announcement of Fetis that d'Eve composed a solemn Mass in the year 1719, for two choirs, with accompaniment for instruments, amongst which there was an obbligato for Violoncello, is a matter of interest to us.
Pizzicato with the left hand and obbligato glissando!
The clarinet flings anobbligato high over the heads of the dancers on the cabaret floor.
It is obvious that the umbrellas outside are for the moment something other than ripples; that the great play of life outside is something other than an inarticulate Greek chorus mumbled as an obbligato for him alone.
His song, "Protestations," is tender, and has a violin obbligato that is really more important than the voice part.
Among other songs, one with an effective obbligato for the violoncello deserves special praise.
While Britt was expressing his opinion of inefficiency and expense, the Prophet was furnishing this obbligato outside, "'He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
He leaped up from the rock on which he had been sitting, pondering, the rumble of the conspirators' conversation serving as obbligatofor the cry his soul was uttering.
Erbe on the violin, who played the obbligato with exquisite grace and finish.
It has also been insinuated that in Donizetti's "Lucia" the heroine goes mad, not because she has been separated from Edgardo, but because a flute obbligato accompanies her principal aria.
The symphonies of Haydn and Mozart, according to Strauss, are enlarged string quartets with obbligato woodwind, brass and tympani, and the occasional use of other instruments of noise to strengthen the tuttis.
Here seems to be the place to refer to the Allegro movement in sonata-form for viola and violoncello which Beethoven gave the title, "Duett mit zwei Augenglaesern obbligato von L.
The earlier obbligatoaccompaniment gave way to an obbligato style of writing which rested to a greater extent on counterpoint.
True, the Mozart model still shines through the fabric, but we seek it less in the art of figuration than in the form and other things which are only indirectly associated with the obbligato style.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obbligato" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
