cantilever

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Moments later she is off on a rapturous, throaty love duet with the Earl of Leicester, making Donizetti's elaborately wrought roulades and cantilenas sound as natural as a lullaby.

From Time Magazine Archive

Banal, melodious cantilenas, shreds of the wild echoes Verdi set flying—melody that has been shut up from the air until, to modern taste, it has become stiff, flaky, like stale candy.

From Time Magazine Archive

For with all the range which these songs cover, their vocal quality is as noticeable as that of Italian cantilenas.

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

In both cases we have a heroine for whom it is difficult to feel much sympathy, a weak young man, and a heavy father given to singing long-winded cantilenas.

From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur

We shall have no more cantilenas; they would be thought poor and cold.

From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Edwards, Henry Sutherland