Usage examples (26)

• Madame Viardot-Garcia, finding the phrase of the cabaletta in the aria
• She sang the cabaletta "Di tale amor" with good trills and clean runs, though at a moderate tempo.
• Dr. Kissinger apparently doesn't appreciate the considerably rousing power of the traditional cantilena-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera.
• Our natural instinct is to analyze that as a homologous variation — Joplin must have got it from somewhere, perhaps the cavatina-cabaletta sequence of Italian opera, or...