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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OBBLIGATO

From Italian, from obbligare to oblige.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF OBBLIGATO

obbligato  [ˌɒblɪˈɡɑːtəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OBBLIGATO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Obbligato can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OBBLIGATO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Obbligato

In classical music obbligato usually describes a musical line that is in some way indispensable in performance. Its opposite is the marking ad libitum. It can also be used, more specifically, to indicate that a passage of music was to be played exactly as written, or only by the specified instrument, without changes or omissions. The word is borrowed from Italian. The word can stand on its own, in English, as a noun, or appear as a modifier in a noun phrase.

Definition of obbligato in the English dictionary

The definition of obbligato in the dictionary is not to be omitted in performance. Other definition of obbligato is an essential part in a score.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OBBLIGATO


affogato
ˌæfəˈɡɑːtəʊ
animato
ˌænɪˈmɑːtəʊ
appassionato
əˌpæsjəˈnɑːtəʊ
castrato
kæˈstrɑːtəʊ
dato
ˈdɑːtəʊ
datto
ˈdɑːtəʊ
fugato
fjʊˈɡɑːtəʊ
legato
lɪˈɡɑːtəʊ
macchiato
ˌmækɪˈɑːtəʊ
marcato
mɑːˈkɑːtəʊ
moderato
ˌmɒdəˈrɑːtəʊ
obligato
ˌɒblɪˈɡɑːtəʊ
ostinato
ˌɒstɪˈnɑːtəʊ
rubato
ruːˈbɑːtəʊ
scordato
skɔːˈdɑːtəʊ
spiccato
spɪˈkɑːtəʊ
staccato
stəˈkɑːtəʊ
tomato
təˈmɑːtəʊ
vibrato
vɪˈbrɑːtəʊ
Waikato
ˈwaɪˌkɑːtəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OBBLIGATO

obang
Obasanjo
obb.
obbligati
obcompressed
obconic
obconical
obcordate
obdt
obduracy
obdurate
obdurately
obdurateness
obduration

WORDS THAT END LIKE OBBLIGATO

baked potato
boniato
Cato
couch potato
Erato
gelato
Guanajuato
hot potato
illuminato
Irish potato
jacket potato
jato
martellato
new potato
pizzicato
Plato
potato
Prato
sweet potato
Tupungato

Synonyms and antonyms of obbligato in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «obbligato» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OBBLIGATO

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The translations of obbligato from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «obbligato» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

OBBLIGATO
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

obbligato
570 millions of speakers

English

obbligato
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

obbligato
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

obbligato
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

облигато
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

obbligato
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

obbligato
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

obligé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Obbligato
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

obligaten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オブリガート
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

obbligato
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Obbligato
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

obbligato
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

obbligato
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Obbligato
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

obbligato
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

obbligato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Obbligato
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

облігато
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

obbligato
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

obbligato
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

obligaat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

obligat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

obbligato
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of obbligato

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OBBLIGATO»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OBBLIGATO» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about obbligato

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OBBLIGATO»

Discover the use of obbligato in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to obbligato and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Webster's New World 575+ Italian Verbs
obbligare to oblige, to force, to compel Auxiliary verb: avere Past participle: obbligato Gerund: obbligando Imperative: (tu) obbliga (non obbligare); (Lei) obblighi; (noi) obblighiamo; (voi) obbligate; (Loro) obblighino Note: Obbligare requires the ...
Laura Soave, 2008
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Early Viennese Chamber Music with Obbligato Keyboard: Part ...
Part 2: Sex Ensemble Works for Two to Five Performers Michelle Fillion. Contents Part II Preface The Sources vii The Music of the Edition viii Notes on Performance x Editorial Methods x Critical Commentary xi Acknowledgments xvii Notes xvii ...
Michelle Fillion, 1989
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The NPR Classical Music Companion: An Essential Guide for ...
0 OBBLIGATO Obbligato is an Italian word meaning "essential," or "obligatory." During the Baroque era (ca. 1600-1750), especially, but even as late as Beethoven's time (the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries), composers used the ...
Miles Hoffman, 2005
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Schoenberg and the New Music: Essays by Carl Dahlhaus
The title Arnold Schoenberg gave to the last of his Five Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16, The Obbligato Recitative' [Das obligate Rezitativ], seems puzzling and self- contradictory if the words obbligato and recitative are taken to mean what they do in ...
Carl Dahlhaus, 1989
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Appraisals of Original Wind Music: A Survey and Guide
Chapter. 23. Vocal. music. with. bassoon. obbligato. [See IE for survey of works which involve other solo wind instruments in combination with bassoon in a similarly independent role, including Monteverdi's Orfeo, Cesti's // Porno d'oro ( both ...
David Lindsey Clark, 1999
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The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz ...
Jazz improvisation is the elongation of two old musical concepts: on one hand, the African and African American traditions of spontaneous but disciplined creation in vocal or instrumental music and the Western musical idea “obbligato.” While ...
Walton M. Muyumba, 2009
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Belgravia
Holding him by a button, Elliston confidentially winked, and whispered with earnestness the words “Violino obbligato.” “ What did you say?” “Violino obbligato.” (Gravely :) “ Do you understand me? Violino obbligato.” Russell affected to ...
‎1869
8
Kammermusik No. 3, Op. 36 / No. 2: For Obbligato Cello and ...
SchottNew urtext edition.
Giselher Schubert, 2011
9
Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy
Bernier's, the most typical in this respect, comprises four works for solo voice and continuo, plus two with a single obbligato instrument labelled 'violon' throughout. At the opposite extreme, Stuck's volume is uncharacteristic of the early cantata ...
Michael Talbot, 2009
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The Operas of Alban Berg: Lulu
Obbligato continues. a,. Mm. 184-190. Chorale melody inverted, in horns and trumpets, with canonic imitation in bass instruments. The second violins join the obbligato. At mm. 186-188 ("Hohepunkt") the upper winds present the opening bars ...
George Perle, 1989

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OBBLIGATO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term obbligato is used in the context of the following news items.
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Armando Manocchia: Risposta al messaggio del presidente …
... di governo elettivo, una monarchia ereditaria, e così via — qualunque sia la forma di governo esterna, il contenuto obbligato è la sharia. «Imola Oggi, Jul 15»
2
Casio Releases iPhone App That Lets Users Compose Original …
In Version 2.0, users can select obbligato passages and convert the original song to MIDI data. - Enhanced integration with Key Lighting ... «Virtual Press Office, Jul 15»
3
Bach's 'Passion' continues festival's strong choral voice
In the arias, the solo vocal lines are complimented by hauntingly beautiful obbligato lines, played by one or a pair of instrumentalists. And the ... «The Register-Guard, Jul 15»
4
Caldo o no bere acqua è la migliore abitudine quotidiana
Certamente un clima così ha davvero obbligato tutti ad aumentare l' idratazione, ma questa non dovrebbe essere solamente una situazione ... «La Repubblica, Jul 15»
5
On the Road to an Elegant Misanthropy
It is not surprising that this lovely and radiant obbligato line has been recorded by the likes of Itzhak Perlman and Hilary Hahn on anthologies of ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
6
Trenta chilometri al giorno per battere il diabete
Certo, nonostante i grandi risultati raggiunti, è sempre obbligato a fare particolare attenzione. «Oggi – conclude - la mia situazione è migliorata ... «Ottopagine, Jul 15»
7
Napoleonic Tomfoolery
Her anguished aria, Il faut partir, bel canto singing non plus ultra with fine English horn obbligato by James Button, made my evening. «Santa Fe Reporter, Jul 15»
8
Born On The Fourth Of July: How Louis Armstrong Taught Us to Swing
It also took a lot of self-fortification for Louis to keep on coping with the Jim Crow that was an obbligato to his life. For many, many years, famed ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
9
Val Doonican: Singer, artist and lumberyard worker
I never thought I would be on stage with Stéphane, with him playing the most beautiful obbligato in my ear. It was like being in heaven." ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Il trailer in esclusiva di The Walk, sul funambolo Petit
... spiegando le ragioni della sua fascinazioni per il personaggio, ci fu quasi... obbligato: la polizia si era infatti presentata su entrambe le torri ... «La Gazzetta dello Sport, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Obbligato [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/obbligato>. May 2024 ».
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