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What is a parlando?

What is a parlando? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A piece of music to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
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Russell exhibits regularly with the Oregon State University faculty and was juried into the Portland Art Museum Biennial under the pseudonym Parlando Rubato.
His words are parlando, but the orchestra illumines them with music clear as a calcium light.
Regarding the text setting, Aplvor's writing for solo voice is largely angular, in line with the post-Webern idiom, and essentially parlando in style.
Instead of broad, flowing, but intelligible themes, a mongrel breed of recitative and parlando was to take their place.
His interpretation is desiccating, and in the third movement, the women's chorus performs the parlando sections coarsely, as if they were selling fish.
In his sonic imagination, the notation indicates not that the syllable should be accentuated, but rather that it should be spoken, or rather sung in a parlando style.

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