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Definition of Obbligatos
1. obbligato [n] - See also: obbligato
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obbligatos
Literary usage of Obbligatos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handel by Charles Francis Abdy Williams (1901)
"... and a famous player; Valentine Snow, his first trumpeter, for whom his many
difficult trumpet obbligatos were written ; Caporale, his first violoncello, ..."
2. Violin Mastery: Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers, Comprising by Frederick Herman Martens (1919)
"Richard Strauss's violin conci can really be played by the violinist. ''.
obbligatos in his symphonies are a very dif ent matter; they go beyond ..."
3. An Introduction to School Music Teaching by Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1919)
"use choruses with instrumental obbligatos often, and to select operettas for
performance sometimes, the action and scenery in this case helping to overcome ..."
4. Choral Orchestration by Cecil Forsyth, Walter Henry Hall (1920)
"Hence for purposes of accompaniment, incidental obbligatos, and so on, one has
to face the fact that the wood-wind are not only similar to the voice in ..."
5. The Art of Accompanying by Algernon H. Lindo (1916)
"With this exception, all the organ-work that an accompanist is likely to be asked
to undertake will be the obbligatos to sacred songs; they are extremely ..."
6. What We Hear in Music: A Laboratory Course of Study in Music History and by Anne Faulkner Oberndorfer (1913)
"... (Viola Obbligato) HINTS FOE TEACHERS M. Gautier In writing this program on
the blackboard do not give the instruments which play the obbligatos. ..."
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