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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | © The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

vocalise. A wordless vocal exercise or concert piece sung to one or more vowels. One of first concert pieces was Ravel's Vocalise en forme d'habanera. There are also Vocalise, for v. and pf. by Rachmaninov, Op.34, No.14, comp. 1912, rev. 1915, and 3 Vocalises for sop. and cl. by Vaughan Williams (1958).

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