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Even the fast-moving second section has the singing quality that was Mr. Weisgall’s trademark, and the Arioso alternates keening cantorial cello lines with delicate mystery and slow slides into glassy harmonics.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2012

Wi’ hand on hainch, an’ upward e’e, He croon’d his gamut, one, two, three, Then in an Arioso key, The wee Apollo Set off wi’ Allegretto glee His giga solo.

From 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 by Burns, Robert

It opens with an energetic Recitativo in C minor, interrupted for a few bars by an Arioso Adagio in C major.

From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by Shedlock, J. S. (John South)

The Arioso too which follows, "He made us," is most fervent in expression.

From Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End by Bache, Constance

The Schoolmaster, with three young lads, was heard rehearsing from his own house an Arioso, with which, so soon as they were perfect, he purposed to surprise his clerical superior.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno