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cabaletta
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ca·ba·let·ta  (kb-lt, käb-)
n. pl. ca·ba·let·tas or ca·ba·let·te (-lt)
1.
a. A short aria that has a repetitive rhythm and a simple style.
b. The final section of an aria or duet marked by a quick uniform rhythm.
2. Something likened to such a short aria or a final section of a piece: "And a chronic chorus of cascades and birds/Cuts loose in a wild cabaletta" (W.H. Auden).
[Italian, alteration of coboletta, stanza, diminutive of cobola, cobla, from Old Provençal cobla, from Latin cpula, link.]
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It's the same feeling when you're singing those cabalettas and coloraturas: you're on top of the wave, and you feel the energy getting bigger and bigger underneath you.
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Early 19th-century Italian operas, following what was known as the Rossini Code, were constructed in a series of slow, dramatically backwards-looking cantabile arias or ensembles, introduced by recitatives and followed by faster, forward-looking cabalettas.
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Music-director-cum-pianist Raisa Nakhmanovich emphasized the musical drama while correctly keeping the cabalettas slow, the cavatinas dreamy and the recitatives intense.
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