arioso

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But Monteverdi shows uncanny skill at writing extended vocal passages that shift seamlessly between recitative, arioso and aria.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2017

Recitative and arioso passages allow the singers to barrel through words at a tremendous clip.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2015

The obbligato viole d’amore parts in the bass arioso “Betrachte, meine Seel’,” were ravishingly played.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2014

Her vocal lines are mostly routine arioso, while the ensemble writing is most effective when thinned to a single line – a teetering piano solo, perhaps, or a thrummed cello.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2010

To have set them in the sustained arioso style of Tristan und Isolde would have been as impossible as it would have been inept.

From Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score by Gilman, Lawrence