obligato

Obligato, which is to say Leicester yonder, hath no tail—the devil cut it off and wears it himself.

Third, there were two obligato instruments, the pipe used in the duet of the two shepherds, and the "lira" played by Orpheus.

The art of obligato pedal playing he brought to a point which it had never before reached and scarcely afterward surpassed.

The band from its station on a platform car boomed "Hail to the Chief," the engine whistle screaming an obligato.