obbligato

These parts were also obbligato in the sense of indispensable.

There was sometimes an obbligato line above or below the melody.

I love its form, like a symphony with piano obbligato.

A gentle obbligato to the life and death struggle in Lewis's study?

The following three movements are distinguished by their obbligato instruments.

Up to that point, the organ has been busy enough, but mostly in an obbligato role.

He, like others of the Jewish art music movement, favored songs with obbligato string parts.

The focus of the listening also seemed sharper than usual, though the obbligato coughing was present as ever.

There are neighborhood watering holes, with live music obbligato.

The singers are like an obbligato, an almost secondary decoration to the instrumental writing.

This work is a four-voice short mass with two obbligato sopranos.

The soprano aria seems to lack a part for an obbligato instrument.

The obbligato part is on smaller paper inserted into the first violin part.

The chorale is followed by an aria with an obbligato violin.

The tenor aria is probably lacking the part of an obbligato violin.

The noise of the traffic outside the building on the boulevard made an unmusical obbligato to my thinking.

In a later performance of the cantata, Bach assigned the obbligato part to a violin.

Faith's song is scored for cello obbligato, piano, and female voice.

One is a vocal obbligato - the tendency to hum along, particularly in fugues.

The other was the obbligato of squeaks from the concert tent's folding chairs.

Robert had grown quite used to running through his morning post to a Nevil obbligato.

At other times the piano will play a countermelody to the voice to form a kind of obbligato.

The obbligato line reaches a double cadence before the soprano entrance.

His use of the piano obbligato became his signature.

Western opera used to be like that, too - occasions for social intrigue and fashionable display, with music obbligato.