Definition of Cavatena
||Ca`va*ti"na (?), n. [It.]
(Mus.) Originally, a melody of simpler form than the
aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -
- a term now variously and vaguely used.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (music) an operatic song in slow tempo, either complete in itself or (e.g., in Bellini and Verdi) followed by a faster, more resolute section: hence
- (music) a rather slow, song-like instrumental movement; the title, for example, of a movement in Beethoven's string quartet in B flat, op. 130 (1826) and of a once-famous piece (originally for violin and piano) by Raff, and of the slow movement of Rubra's string quartet No. 2
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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