Usually means: Melodic style between song and speech.
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  1. arioso: Merriam-Webster
  2. arioso: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arioso: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. arioso: Collins English Dictionary
  5. arioso: Vocabulary.com
  6. arioso: Wordnik
  7. arioso: Wiktionary
  8. arioso: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. arioso: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. arioso: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Arioso, arioso: Dictionary.com
  12. arioso: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Arioso: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Arioso: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. arioso: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. arioso: Rhymezone
  17. Arioso: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. arioso: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. arioso: FreeDictionary.org
  20. arioso: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. arioso: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. arioso: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arioso: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (arioso)

▸ noun:  (music) A musical style, in opera and oratorio, that is more melodic than recitative, but less so than aria

Similar:
popera, melodrama, opera, lyric opera, accentus, antiopera, passacaglia, melopiano, arpeggiando, verismo, more...

Opposite:
recitative

Adjectives:
first, short, expressive, free, recitative, lyrical, second, continuous, extended, dramatic, brief

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Similar:
popera, melodrama, opera, lyric opera, accentus, antiopera, passacaglia, melopiano, arpeggiando, verismo, more...

Opposite:
recitative

Adjectives:
first, short, expressive, free, recitative, lyrical, second, continuous, extended, dramatic, brief

Colors:
    sky blue,     lavender,     pastel pink,     mint green,     coral, more...



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