The theme is given to the saxophone (or cello) with obligatoof clarinet and violas; the bass is in bassoons and pizzicato of lower strings.
When the theme ceases, the brass blow the rhythm on a monotone, midst an ascending obligatoof strings.
Of course you know that there is no singing in it, but merely recitation, to which the music is a sort of obligato recitativo.
I then saw her husband come sneaking in behind her with his violoncello in his hand; I thought she was going to sing an aria obligato with violoncello accompaniment.
She who hath broughtObligato to the diminuendo and finale," answered the fool; "even she who hath befriended the Huguenottine of the black eyes.
Then must Obligato go, for he hath such credentials," said the fool, blowing thistledown in the air.
Of his compositions there is a work entitled "Concerti per Camera a 3 e 4 stromenti, con violoncello obligato (Op.
Opposed to this by its simplicity in a technical point of view is a "Sonata a Cembalo Obligato col Viol da Gamba," by Handel.
It is in its general effect a soprano obligatowith chorus.
Then must Obligato go, for he hath such credentials," said the fool, blowing thistle-down in the air.
In such cases the chosen choral will appear in the different numbers of the work in fragments or motives, sometimes as subject for voice parts, or woven into the accompaniment as theme or in obligato fashion.
Examine one of his contrapuntal choruses, or even one of his arias with its obligato accompaniment, and you are instantly reminded of the mode of facture of his organ pieces.
Then came a delightful concerto by Haydn for strings, two obligato violins and an obligato 'cello.
A sixth motet has an obligato figured-bass accompaniment.
Porpora had written an obligato part to a song, in which his pupil rivaled the instrument in holding and swelling a note of extraordinary purity and volume.
I cannot write anything not obligato for I came into this world with an obligato accompaniment.
She could hear Dunham moving about in his room, and knew that he was forbearing on Sylvia's account from the whistling obligato which usually accompanied his toilet.
Haven't you noticed--" She broke off, and presumably continued the obligato variations.
Mrs. Grampound did not reply, but the obligato variations went on jubilantly.
Yes, but very old," said she, whose mind was apparently performing obligato variations on the theme of the conversation.
I am in very fair health, London decidedly agrees with me, and I don't suffer as much as I expected from the obligato spleen of blue devildom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obligato" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
