obbligato in English

noun
1
an instrumental part, typically distinctive in effect, that is integral to a piece of music and should not be omitted in performance.
It is not sung, but only declaimed, and the music is like an obbligato recitative.
noun
    obligato

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1. 31 synonyms for Accompaniment: backing music, backing, support, obbligato, supplement, extra

2. 18 Sonata No. 3 in D minor for Piano with Violin Obbligato, J. Rondo.

3. Coercion bills, under various names, were a sombre obbligato to Anglo-Irish relations throughout much of the 19th cent

4. A VISIT TO THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT, AND ITALY IDA PFEIFFER This Bravura air with its trumpet obbligato still remains a favourite with competent vocalists and discriminating audiences.

5. The Kissimmee Valley 23 a loud bass, and as if an obbligato to this pond chorus, the Bullbats nestled on the ground or in young cabbage palms monotonously cried "chuckwill's-widow." Insects, too: moths, butterflies, flying roaches, many varieties of ants, mosquitoes, it seemed that anything that crawled or …