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‖ cabaletta Mus.|kæbəˈlɛtə|
Pl. -ette, -ettas.
[It., prob. ad. coboletta, dim. of cobola stanza, couplet, L. copula: see couple n.]
a. A short aria in simple style with a repetitive rhythm.
b. The final section of an aria, marked by a quick, uniform rhythm. Also transf.
1842J. F. Warner Dict. Mus. Terms 16/2 Cabaletta, (frequently also Cabbaletta, better, perhaps Cavaletta). This term is applied in the fashionable musical language of the Italians to a very particularly musical, agreeable and soothing passage occurring..in an air (aria). It not unfrequently happens that an Italian audience..listen to a whole air simply for the purpose of being entertained by the cavaletta. 1896G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) II. 133 Old-fashioned arias with florid cabalettas at the ends of them. 1947A. Einstein Music in Romantic Era xvi. 276 The lyric cabalette or shortened arias introduced by Rossini. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) iii. 82 And a chronic chorus of cascades and birds Cuts loose in a wild cabaletta. 1960Times 29 Aug. 12/6 In the closing cabaletta..fioritura was most perfectly dissolved into the vocal line itself. |