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  2. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    Italian term Literal translation Definition Lacuna: gap: A silent pause in a piece of music Ossia: from o ("or") + sia ("that it be") A secondary passage of music which may be played in place of the original Ostinato: stubborn, obstinate: A repeated motif or phrase in a piece of music Pensato: thought out: A composed imaginary note Ritornello ...

  3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    sordina, sordine (plural) A mute. Note: sordina, with plural sordine, is strictly correct Italian, but the forms sordino and sordini are much more commonly used in music. Instruments can have their tone muted with wood, rubber, metal, or plastic devices (for string instruments, mutes are clipped to the bridge; for brass instruments, mutes are ...

  4. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  5. Italian grammar - Wikipedia

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    Note that the presence of an i in the plural ending has no impact on the pronunciation in this case. [ 5 ] when the i is stressed, it always remains in plural: farma cia / farma cie ('chemist's shop(s)'), nevral gia / nevral gie ('neuralgia(s)').

  6. Italian conjugation - Wikipedia

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    Italian verbs have a high degree of inflection, the majority of which follows one of three common patterns of conjugation. Italian conjugation is affected by mood, person, tense, number, aspect and occasionally gender. The three classes of verbs (patterns of conjugation) are distinguished by the endings of the infinitive form of the verb:

  7. Marcato - Wikipedia

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    ; Italian for marked) is a musical instruction indicating a note, chord, or passage is to be played louder or more forcefully than the surrounding music. The instruction may involve the word marcato itself written above or below the staff or it may take the form of the symbol ∧, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] an open vertical wedge.

  8. Diachronics of plural inflection in the Gallo-Italic languages

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    On the contrary, masculine plural is generally derived from Latin second declension nominative -i; this suffix eventually drops or gives rise to palatalisation or metaphonesis; some concrete realisations are: -li > -lj > -gl > -j-ni > -nj > -gn-ti > -tj > -cc; Metaphonesis (in regression) : orti > öört; Neutralisation: -i > -∅

  9. Destri (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Destri" is a song by Italian indie singer-songwriter Gazzelle, released as a single in 2020 anticipating his third studio album OK, of the following year. In Italian , destri is the plural form of destro , meaning "right" (in the sense of "opposite to left") or "right-handed"; [ a ] the word destro is also used figuratively to indicate a right ...