| 释义 |
‖ cantabile, a. and n. Music.|kanˈtabile|
[It. = that can be sung, suited for singing.]
A. adj. In a smooth flowing style, such as would be suited for singing. Also as adv.
1724Short Explication Foreign Words in Musick Bks. 17 Cantabile, is to play in a Kind of Singing or Chanting Manner. 1730–6in Bailey. 1792J. W. Callcott Explan. Notes Mus. 27/2 Cantabile, in a vocal stile. This word is sometimes used in the same sense as Cadenza, but very improperly. 1822Repository No. 80. 103 The smooth, cantable, and expressive melody which pervades its structure. 1864Realm 13 Apr. 8 Written in a simple cantabile style. 1893–7J. S. Shedlock tr. H. Riemann's Dict. Mus. 119/1 Cantabile, full of expression... In passages marked c, the principal melody is always made more prominent than the accompanying parts. 1931D. F. Tovey in Tovey & Craxton Beethoven Piano Sonatas III. 140/2 These bars are in double counterpoint to each other; therefore both hands must play cantabile.
B. n. Cantabile style; a piece or passage of music of this style.
1744J. Green Psalmody 140 Cantabal, Vocal Music. 1788J. Williams (A. Pasquin) Childr. Thespis (1792) 137 Tho her sportive cantabilies win us. 1808Wolcott (P. Pindar) Wks. 1812 V. 353 The tuneful Nymph..That in cantabile delights the soul. 1856Mrs. C. Clarke tr. Berlioz' Instr. 81 It expresses them admirably in its cantabile. |