His role was part speaking, part sprechstimme, and part outright arioso and he was perfection in all of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lou Harrison's "Young Caesar"] Reference

But the solo writing is mostly in the tedious note-for-syllable arioso style that drags down so many modern operas.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Shadowboxer: Based on the Life of Joe Louis' at Maryland Opera Studio] Reference

Her vocal lines are mostly routine arioso, while the ensemble writing is most effective when thinned to a single line?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion's Face] Reference

One thing Del Monaco always did well was Otello's entrance arioso, which establishes Otello's heroic side in 40 seconds of very difficult music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

The solo sections of these anthems contain arioso writing, with virtuoso decorations to highlight individual words or phrases those composed for the bass John Gostling—such as They that go down to the sea in ships and I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord—are especially spectacular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

"L'elegante mise en page del testo, infatti, vergato in scrittura umanistica, a piena pagina, con uno specchio di scrittura arioso, di gusto classico, il formato decisamente moderno e 'petrarchesco' di «libretto da mano» ne fanno un maneggevole libro di lettura, scritto al contempo con eleganza e chiarezza, che ripete da vicino teoria e prassi della riforma del libro voluta e imposta da Petrarca negli ambienti delle più avanzate avanguardie umanistiche" p.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

Then it degenerates somewhat into an arioso, almost Italian.    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

In a deliciously mordent little arioso, the sheriff meditates on death.    From Wordnik.com.  [DownWithTyranny!] Reference

A lovely arioso for alto ( "Woe unto them") follows Elijah's vigorous declamation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers] Reference

Daniels seemed to be sleepwalking through what should be an emotionally gripping sequence of arioso movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Dancing accompanies everything - the slave song, arioso and duet, in addition to the classic Polovtsian Dances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News] Reference

Horns and woodwinds provide a haloed support for Solomon's plangent, slow arioso in scales of brittle resignation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Small matter, our tenor gifted us with top notch singing all night and contributed a memorable version of his last arioso.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

Titled "Tenderly, Singing," this movement hearkens back to a Mendelssohn arioso, yet the level of invention is not so high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

The concertante writing allows both fleet bravura and arioso contributions from Borciani, often in dialogue with Pegrefi and Rossi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

In Gluck, the action often comes to a halt so that characters might divulge their emotions, exquisitely refined, in extended arioso meditations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

The flexibility and tensile gossamer quality of the arioso tissue makes for compelling listening, for rarely has the piano sung in such transparent textures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

But on the other hand it is impossible to be blind to its relationship to the more metrical arioso of Monteverde's earlier work or perhaps to the canzone of Caccini's "Nuove Musiche.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference

The Clement first movement Allegro maestoso favors large, swooping gestures, offset by a kind of military, secondary theme; then, a lyrical, arioso tune, perhaps in imitation of Paganini.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Monteverdi (1567-1643) and the same master's further innovation of setting liturgical texts to what became known as the aria and the arioso forms, the abandonment of the former standard was complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

It is followed by the lovely arioso for alto, "But the Lord is mindful of His own," -- fitting companion to the equally beautiful "O rest in the Lord" from "Elijah," and much resembling it in general style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers] Reference

De Profundis for strings proceeded from a nervous telegraphic rhythm that periodically sparked explosions through the whole band, as well as a wistful arioso that included some unearthly effects for divided strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

For a start, many of the arias don't follow the set pattern of A-B-A of the time; there are less formal, more flowing sections of arioso and chatty recitative that move the action forward without so many regular stops for star-vehicle arias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

There were, it is true, some excellent things: the cathedral of sound created in the C sharp minor Fugue, the third subject swung like a great bell; the wonderfully elegiac arioso of the E flat minor Prelude and the eloquent F minor Prelude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

In the opening passages of mingled recitative and arioso, Peter is forewarned that he shall deny his Master, and his half-indignant remonstrance is sustained, with added emphasis, by the voices of the twelve disciples, pitched a fourth higher.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference

The ascension scene is accompanied by graceful and expressive recitatives for tenor and bass, followed by a tenor arioso ( "Go ye and teach") and a short soprano recitative ( "And he lifted up his Hands"), leading to the full melodious chorus, "If ye then be risen.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers] Reference

Other forms such as the sestina, cyclic or in individual stanzas, are given lighter polyphonic dress; and the chordal declamation of the arioso madrigal may be seen Bernardo Tasso’s Vostro fui vostro son.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Samaria "), sung by the contralto, and leading up to an arioso chorus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers] Reference

In arioso trills and graces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference

After a short arioso by Assad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers] Reference

To have set them in the sustained arioso style of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score] Reference