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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Arla di cantabile

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69257Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — Arla di cantabileJohn Weeks Moore

Arla di cantabile. (I.) When this expression is written at the beginning of a melody, or movement, it implies that its style is flowing and chantante, and that its performance should be smooth and finished, elegant, graceful, and replete with feeling.