| 词条 | Obbligato |
| 释义 |
In Western classical music, obbligato ({{IPA-it|obbliˈɡaːto}}, also spelled obligato[1]) usually describes a musical line that is in some way indispensable in performance. Its opposite is the marking ad libitum. It can also be used, more specifically, to indicate that a passage of music was to be played exactly as written, or only by the specified instrument, without changes or omissions. The word is borrowed from Italian (an adjective meaning fixed; from Latin obligatus p.p. of obligare, to oblige); the spelling obligato is not acceptable in British English,[2] but it is often used as an alternative spelling in the US.[3] The word can stand on its own, in English, as a noun, or appear as a modifier in a noun phrase (e.g. organ obbligato). IndependenceObbligato includes the idea of independence, as in C.P.E. Bach's 1780 Symphonies "mit zwölf obligaten Stimmen" ("with twelve obbligato parts") by which Bach was referring to the independent woodwind parts he was using for the first time. These parts were also obbligato in the sense of being indispensable. ContinuoIn connection with a keyboard part in the baroque period, obbligato has a very specific meaning: it describes a functional change from a basso continuo part (in which the player decided how to fill in the harmonies unobtrusively) to a fully written part of equal importance to the main melody part. Contradictory usageA later use has the contradictory meaning of optional, indicating that a part was not obligatory.[4] A difficult passage in a concerto might be furnished by the editor with an easier alternative called the obbligato; or a work may have a part for one or more solo instruments, marked obbligato (but more commonly and correctly termed an ossia), that is decorative rather than essential; the piece is complete and can be performed without the added part.[5] The traditional term for such a part is ad libitum, or ad lib., or simply optional, since ad lib. may have a wide variety of interpretations. Contemporary usageIn classical music the term has fallen out of use by modern-day practitioners, as composers, performers and audiences alike have come to see the musical text as paramount in decisions of musical execution. As a result, everything is now seen as obbligato unless explicitly specified otherwise in the score. It is still used to denote an orchestral piece with an instrumental solo part that stands out, but is not as prominent as in a solo concerto, as in Bloch's Concerto Grosso mentioned below. The term is now used mainly to discuss music of the past. One contemporary usage, however, is that by Erik Satie in the third movement of "Embryons desséchés" ("Desiccated Embryos"), where the obbligato consists of around twenty F-major chords played at fortissimo (this is satirising Beethoven's symphonic style). The term is also used with an entirely different meaning, signifying a countermelody. ExamplesExplicit instances
Implicit instances
References1. ^[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obligato obligato] in dictionary at Merriam-Webster website {{Accompaniment}}2. ^"Obbligato" in The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press: Michael Kennedy (ed.), 1985 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.wordnik.com/words/obligato|title=Wordnik|author=|date=|website=Wordnik.com|accessdate=14 April 2018}} 4. ^"Obbligato" in Lectionary of Music, Nicolas Slonimsky. McGraw-Hill {{ISBN|0-07-058222-X}} 5. ^"Obbligato" in Collins Music Encyclopedia, Westrup & Harrison: Collins, London, 1959 2 : Accompaniment|Musical terminology |
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