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In music for voice with instruments, 'obbligato' refers to a prominent instrumental part in an aria or other number. The archetype of the obbligato part is the instrumental solo which, with a basso continuo, constitutes the accompaniment of vast numbers of late Baroque arias. An especially ornate violin obbligato appears in the Benedictus of Beethoven's Mass in D. Such parts were often less formal in the 19th century, but prominent obbligato writing for flute in particular is not unusual in Romantic opera-for example in the cadenza of the traditional version of the Mad Scene in Lucia di Lammermoor(1835)-and the cello and english horn are often assigned an obbligato role in melancholy contexts(Fuller, David. ''Obbligato''. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Edited by Stanley Sadie. Second Edition, vol. 18 page 253). A example of a well-known obbligato would be the ''piccolo obbligato'' in the trio of John Philip Sousa 's march '' Stars And Stripes Forever ''. |
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