This article is about the melody. For the Coldplay song, see Coloratura (song).
Type of elaborate melody
Farinelli, a soprano castrato famous for singing baroque coloratura roles (Bartolomeo Nazari, 1734)
Coloratura is an elaborate melody with runs, trills, wide leaps, or similar virtuoso-like material,[1][2] or a passage of such music. Operatic roles in which such music plays a prominent part, and singers of these roles, are also called coloratura.[3] Its instrumental equivalent is ornamentation.
Coloratura is particularly found in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries. The word coloratura (UK: /ˌkɒlərəˈtjʊərə/COL-ə-rə-TURE-ə, US: /ˌkʌl-/CUL-, Italian:[koloraˈtuːra]) means "coloring" in Italian, and derives from the Latin word colorare ("to color").[1]
^ abOxford American Dictionaries.
^Apel (1969), p. 184.
^Steane, J. B.; Jander, Owen, "Coloratura" in Sadie (1992) 1: 907.
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