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Definition of Short aria
1. Noun. A short aria.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Short Aria
Literary usage of Short aria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"... sometimes, as in " Batti, Batti," from Mozart's " Don Giovanni," a short aria
may begin the scena, but a brilliant aria almost invariably ends it. ..."
2. The Story of Opera by Ernest Markham Lee (1909)
"A short aria, of less pretension than any of the foregoing. Ballad Opera. A form
of English opera in which old and well-known songs were used instead of new ..."
3. The Musical Guide: Containing a Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of Terms by Rupert Hughes (1903)
"A theorbo in which the bass strings were doubled with an octave and the small
strings with a unison. ariette (ar-le't), F. Literally " a short aria," ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"ARIETTA ( Italian, diminutive of «río) is a short aria. ARIOSO is a melody which
follows less strictly the rigid form of the aria, and has more of the ..."
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