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arioso

[ahr-ee-oh-soh, ar-, ah-ryaw-saw] / ˌɑr iˈoʊ soʊ, ˌær-, ɑˈrjɔ sɔ /
ADJECTIVE
melodic
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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

The score, a shifting flow of orchestra-accompanied recitative, arioso, melodic writing and ensembles, is almost through-composed.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2012

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

This is by no means of the same nature as the dramatic arioso of German opera during the nineteenth century.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

Short ariettas and ariosos keep “Serse,” a comic love story, moving along.

From New York Times May 9, 2022

His sound is drawn not from the Caucasus or Russia but from a rich well of Western European Romantic melody, and his ariosos are the opera’s best-known excerpts.

From New York Times Jul. 20, 2018




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