arioso

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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

The various melodies of which the whole is composed are the aria, with its subordinate species, the recitative or accompaniment, and the arioso, frequently also intermixed with choruses.”

From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)