These songs need, indeed, no piano accompaniment or violin obligato.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Irish Mind] Reference

A sixth motet has an obligato figured-bass accompaniment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

"I feel like playing a spaghetti obligato on a big hot bowl of soup," replied Jean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay or, The Secret of the Red Oar] Reference

One would swear she had a nest of nightingales and a trumpet obligato in her throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

This is an obligato to the main theme and the main theme had to played by the forces that wielded power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Harold Fleming, January 24, 1990. Interview A-0363. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

But the harp-obligato proved no more effective than the reduced dieting and early attempt to popularise slimming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

Every human experience has thus its particular and curious æsthetic flavor, as an inevitable though undetected obligato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

Taizé music is beautiful but simple, and working obligato parts into the music as the congregation sings adds a wonderful dimension to the worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Seeking musicians, singers for NYC Taize service.] Reference

I should wait a few more beats until his obligato about how he understaaaaaaands so much more than me because of his age and his Progressive pedigree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Loathe Clinton and the Democrats] Reference

It was in many ways a pleasant sound - infinitely so, indeed, in comparison with the obligato of snores already issuing from the two faithful watchers in the stern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lonely Sea]

MR: Who was the obligato vocalist during the verse who, by the way, came up with an annoyingly beautiful part that you expect to resolve on a note on which it never does?.    From Wordnik.com.  [HuffPost Reviews: Slash, Madonna, David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Plus A Conversation with Matt Hires, and More] Reference

The music that was part of his nature rippled and sang in obligato to his thoughts, and because he loved music he loved colour and knew the connection between sound and tint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference

Raaff, with a hautboy and a bassoon solo obligato.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference

It is in its general effect a soprano obligato with chorus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers] Reference

Eagles Shrieking from their Mountain Heights with an obligato by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erik Dorn] Reference

He is making a speech to the mob and tearing off his uniform obligato.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Immortals] Reference

If a bird sings in the meadow its tune is pitched to Pan's reedy obligato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference

Sweet Bird; accompaniment, flute obligato, Miss C.G. and Mr.F. S. -- and 5.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Comedy] Reference

Then Patty sang to a violin obligato, and altogether the concert was a real success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty's Suitors] Reference

He bursts from the grass and sings in bursts -- plays his own obligato while he goes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference

Hymn as no one else could, and when she played a violin obligato to his songs of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty at Fort Blizzard] Reference

Nothing could be more natural than that I should come here with my violin to play an obligato to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debts of Honor] Reference

Besides these large works he has written a number of songs, of which five are with viola obligato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday]

The treble and alto lead in a sweet duet with slur-flights, like an obligato to the bass and tenor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Hymns and Tunes] Reference

The "sacrificium Deo spiritus" being an aria andante for Raaff, with a hautboy and a bassoon solo obligato.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]

He plays a fairly rudimentary arrangement of "Careless Love" as she adds sweet-toned harmonies and knowing obligato.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

The art of obligato pedal playing he brought to a point which it had never before reached and scarcely afterward surpassed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

I am not yet sufficiently resourceful to take it out in a quietly tearful obligato; I never learned how to produce tears. ….    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Chance] Reference

Of course you know that there is no singing in it, but merely recitation, to which the music is a sort of obligato recitativo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference

Darby's arm-chair the paper flutters to the ground unheeded, and he performs the trumpet obligato que vous savez on his old nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roundabout Papers] Reference

All night the jungle-fowl and monkeys kept up an incessant obligato, and the forest seemed to re-echo with mysterious and far-off sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Tribe in Filipinia] Reference

Capri that fitted it as every day does here; "and with wind and wave outside making an obligato to her flowing accompaniment, she sang" In.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opened Shutters] Reference

I then saw her husband come sneaking in behind her with his violoncello in his hand; I thought she was going to sing an aria obligato with violoncello accompaniment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference