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Definition of Cavatinas
1. cavatina [n] - See also: cavatina
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavatinas
Literary usage of Cavatinas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Young Scholar's Letters: Being a Memoir of Byron Caldwell Smith by Byron Caldwell Smith, Day Otis Kellogg (1897)
"... cavatinas from Meyerbeer, Rossini; waltzes, songs, arias, etc. This winter I
must have some number one instruction in order to form and perfect a style ..."
2. Music (1899)
"And I say: 'But, my dear, the cavatinas are the easiest part of an opera.
Of course you know them. But do you also know the recitatives,.the scenas, ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"He , was also the composer of songs, ballads, j romances, cavatinas, serenades,
and glees, and of quadrilles, polkas, schottisches, minuets, and marches. ..."
4. The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin (1903)
"They pour out piercing, unendurably sweet cavatinas above the fragrance of bloom
and musky smell of fruit Singing is in fact the busi- ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"Nor does sonorous unison bring its relief, cavatinas are corkscrewed, and récitatif
Is a weak undulation of vocal delivery, But is tipsy in tone, ..."
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