📚 Arioso, noun. ❓ Definition (Music • mass noun): (especially in opera and oratorio) vocal music that is more melodic than recitative but less formal than an aria. ❗️ Examples: 1. Short passages of arioso. 2. His final arioso was more assured. 3. These anthems contain arioso writing. 4. We aren't surprised that Handel employs, for this grand theme, all the resources of classical Heroic Opera, involving recitative, arioso, aria, chorus, and ceremonial dance. 5. In Act 3 when Guido and Emilia meet, he urges her to kill him in a remarkable sequence of secco recitative, accompanied recitative and arioso. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic