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coloratura
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun coloratura has 2 senses
- coloratura(n = noun.person) coloratura soprano - a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music; Array is a kind of soprano
- coloratura(n = noun.act) Array - singing with florid ornamentation; Array is a kind of singing, vocalizing
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
coloratura, n.
1 elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody.
2 a singer (esp. a soprano) skilled in coloratura singing.
1 elaborate ornamentation of a vocal melody.
2 a singer (esp. a soprano) skilled in coloratura singing.
Etymology
It. f. L colorare COLOUR
THESAURUS
coloratura
acciaccatura, alto, appoggiatura, arabesque, aria, aria buffa, aria cantabile, aria da capo, aria da chiesa, aria di bravura, aria di coloratura, aria fugata, aria parlante, arietta, arioso, baritone, bass, bel canto, bourdon, bravura, burden, cadence, cadenza, cantabile, chest voice, choral, choral singing, choric, croon, crooning, division, dramatic, drone, drone bass, embellishment, falsetto, fioritura, flight, flourish, folk singing, grace, grace note, head voice, heroic, hum, humming, hymnal, incidental, incidental note, intonation, liturgical, long mordent, lyric, lyricism, mordent, operatic, operatic singing, ornament, passage, pralltriller, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, recitative, roulade, run, sacred, scat, scat singing, singing, single mordent, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, solo, song, soprano, tenor, tonic sol-fa, treble, turn, vocal, vocal music, vocalization, voce, voce di petto, voce di testa, voice, warbling, yodel, yodeling
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