What is the technical musical term for singing and sobbing at the same time? Can I say singhiozzio?
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2Possibly “singhiozzando”– egreg ♦Mar 3 at 14:15
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@egreg thanks, I think that is correct. dictionary.onmusic.org/terms/3171-singhiozzando– fdbMar 3 at 14:22
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I was not aware; this would be used in opera, but I don't consider operas written after 1805. :-)– egreg ♦Mar 3 at 14:42
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The usual way would be with a gerund, like crescendo or diminuendo.
So my bet is on singhiozzando, which seems to be confirmed in Rigoletto
http://www.librettidopera.it/zpdf/rigoletto.pdf
or by https://dictionary.onmusic.org/terms/3171-singhiozzando
