obbligato

How To Use obbligato In A Sentence

• The national anthem at last week's home opener at Fenway Park — performed by a Boston Pops contingent — included the now de rigueur obbligato of a military jet flyover. Flams and drags
• It is not sung, but only declaimed, and the music is like an obbligato recitative.
•  The wind itself answered in a kind of obbligato descant: The Witch is dead! Son of a Witch
• Piano and cello are given equal roles in the Sonata in A (Op. 69), a break with the 18th-century format of a piano sonata accompanied by an instrumental obbligato.
• Recitative comes in two main forms, semplice or secco, which comprises most of the dialogue, and accompagnato or obbligato, which is reserved for passages requiring particular dramatic emphasis, though fully spoken parts (parlante), were not uncommon, particularly in Mozart. 'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa
• It is more baroque than the first in that for obbligato piano it substitutes real interchange between ripieno strings and concertino quartet.
• The outstanding soloist in the concerto was 26-year-old Alec Frank-Gemmill, playing a valveless instrument, as were the obbligato horn section, conjuring misty overtones and harmonics, mellow in mood as well as raw. LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
• I have often found that triangle an irritant and tend to avoid this concerto, but here it gives a delicate and piquant touch to the orchestral sonority, instead of asserting itself as an obbligato second soloist.
• A smaller instrumentation is adopted with English Horn obbligato (as if a shadow of the storyteller). In Part II, the singer 'jumps out' from being a storyteller and becomes the fisherman himself.
• The sequence of choruses, solos and duets accompanied by muted strings with, in turn, obbligato solo flute, oboe and horn, all supply inspiration and underline the work's deep spirituality.