Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Aria di bravura

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Aria di bravura. (I.) A melody at once florid, rapid, and energetic. Its divisions are volatile, and the passages every where striking, bold, and heroic. The execution of this species of air is generally confined to soprano voices, and it is only to powers of the first order that we can look for its just performance.

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