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ariette

Now the same as an arietta, but in early 18th-century French opera an elaborate aria (sometimes with Italian words) and in late 18th-century opéra comique a song introduced into a scene in dialogue. See Debussy (Ariettes oubliées).

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In his 1958 Ariette Oubliee, Ailey played a Marcel Marceau-like character yearning for the moon (de La vallade).

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