'A gentle obbligato to the life and death struggle in Lewis's study?. From Wordnik.com. [Twin Moons] Reference
Then they heard a gentleman sing with her and play a violin obbligato. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Jefferson, Musician] Reference
Soon he was chattering an obbligato or mewling a melodic phrase of his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Sang For The Birds]
Don Alfonso non fosse più obbligato di quanto voleva esserlo circa dette gioje. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
The morning hate of the German family with ragtime obbligato must be a terrible thing. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917] Reference
Through Flandry passed the facts he had read, a parched obbligato to the vividness breathing before him. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
They were conducted rather as a kind of a celestial obbligato to the deep thunder of the battles on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The HurricaneStory]
The second movement is a recitative for tenor that precedes the third movement, a duet for soprano and bass with obbligato violin. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
The fifth movement is a recitative for bass, preceding the sixth movement, which is another duet for soprano and bass with obbligato oboe. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
Pizzicato with the left hand and obbligato glissando!. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
The last song, to which Jonathan improvised an obbligato, ended the music. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Toys] Reference
Venice, and with seventeenth-century gilding and painting obbligato overhead. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Rome] Reference
Larry Carlton's guitar playing - solos, rhythm, and obbligato - is spectacular. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Takeover] Reference
Loot was the tune he harped, with the old Ishmael blood-lust by way of obbligato. From Wordnik.com. [Jimgrim and Allah's Peace] Reference
The "morning hate" of the German family with ragtime obbligato must be a terrible thing!. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Punch's History of the Great War] Reference
The clarinet flings an obbligato high over the heads of the dancers on the cabaret floor. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
Young is a master at improvising second parts, double stopping, and obbligato accompaniments. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting with the Bow and Arrow] Reference
Among other songs, one with an effective obbligato for the violoncello deserves special praise. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
Amy had a new song for baritone, with a violin obbligato and the usual piano accompaniment, and. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
The nearer rick-tack of Miss Delora Bunker's typewriter furnished obbligato for the chorus of the looms. From Wordnik.com. [All-Wool Morrison] Reference
The music served as obbligato for the mighty diapason of men's voices; the thousands talked as they waited. From Wordnik.com. [The Landloper] Reference
And ever and again pealed distantly into the chorus the flute obbligato of an emotional coyote down on the flat. From Wordnik.com. [Somewhere in Red Gap] Reference
His song, "Protestations," is tender, and has a violin obbligato that is really more important than the voice part. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
She would have disturbed Nero's complacency, and he would have played an obbligato instead of a solo at the burning. From Wordnik.com. [The Place of Honeymoons] Reference
The most insinuating of melodies floating over an obbligato of the solo violoncello "like a love charm," as Gounod says. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
The violins, viola, violone, and gamba spread their obbligato embellishments like gilded haloes around the singers 'voices. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Canonicus, standing close behind me, thundered out the bass over my head, as if he were singing with bass-drums and trumpet obbligato in. From Wordnik.com. [Hyperion] Reference
The clarinet was a big deal much earlier in New Orleans Jazz, where it played a mostly obbligato role (see also the page on heterophony). From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
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