parlando
/pahr-lahn-doh/US // pɑrˈlɑn doʊ //UK // (pɑːˈlændəʊ) //
帕兰多,帕兰朵,帕兰托,帕尔兰多
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Music.
- : sung or played as though speaking or reciting.
Examples
Sieglinda's phrases are simple, many of them exquisite, most of them designed to be sung parlando, rather spoken than really sung.
The monotonous parlando is provided with just so much of melody as to indicate that it is sung, not spoken.
Instead of broad, flowing, but intelligible themes, a mongrel breed of recitative and parlando was to take their place.
He tried to imitate ordinary conversational speech with music half sung and half spoken—what came to be called "parlando."
His words are parlando, but the orchestra illumines them with music clear as a calcium light.
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