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aria
1[ ahr-ee-uh, air-ee-uh ]
noun
- an air or melody.
- an elaborate melody sung solo with accompaniment, as in an opera or oratorio.
Aria
2[ ahr-ee-uh, uh-rahy-uh ]
noun
- a nymph, the mother of Miletus, by Apollo.
-aria
3- a suffix occurring in scientific terms of Latin origin, especially in names of biological genera and groups:
filaria.
aria
/ ˈɑːɪə /
noun
- an elaborate accompanied song for solo voice from a cantata, opera, or oratorio See also da capo
aria
- A piece of music for one voice (or occasionally two voices) in an opera , oratorio , or cantata . In contrast with recitative singing, arias are melodious; in contrast with ordinary songs, arias are usually elaborate.
Notes
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of aria1
Example Sentences
Haïm moved the Thursday performance along with an intensity that didn’t allow any room for applauding arias.
Every aria or opera selection was made with dramatic intention; Larraín says the soundtrack is “the hidden map” of the movie.
Oddly, after swooning along with giant aria after giant aria, I left the theater fixating on one of Larraín’s smallest sound-design choices.
Ms McGhee said she was so worried she would never be able to sing again that she performed arias from all her dream roles the night before her surgery.
Composed without arias or set pieces, Dargomyzhsky’s score illuminates Pushkin’s words and paves the way for the truly Russian opera, however grander, of Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
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