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cavatina

/kav-uh-tee-nuh; Italian kah-vah-tee-nah/US // ˌkæv əˈti nə; Italian ˌkɑ vɑˈti nɑ //UK // (ˌkævəˈtiːnə) //

卡瓦提娜,卡瓦提那,洞庭湖,卡瓦提纳

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural cav·a·ti·ne [kav-uh-tee-ney; Italian kah-vah-tee-ne]. /ˌkæv əˈti neɪ; Italian ˌkɑ vɑˈti nɛ/. Music.

    • : a simple song or melody, properly one without a second part or a repeat; an air.

Examples

  • Schuppanzighs high opinion of the Cavatina was shared by many and also by Beethoven himself.

  • A drama was to be produced in which a very difficult cavatina was introduced.

  • Palestrina's music resembles the music of Rossini, as the song of the sparrow is like the cavatina of the nightingale.

  • A more beautiful rendering of the lovely cavatina "Casta Diva" could not have been heard, Mdme.

  • The chord which closed his cavatina had sealed his fame in opera; but his fame was to him as ashes in his mouth.