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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. 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.