cabaletta
Noun
Meaning
cabaletta (plural cabalettas)
A short, rhythmically repetitive aria.
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Leonora now was to have a cantabile for the Miserere as well as retaining "Tacea la Notte" in act 1 with its cabaletta.
Osborne, C., p. 255 Thus, the cantabile cabaletta two-part arias, the use of the chorus, etc., which Verdi had originally asked Cammarano to ignore, are evident.