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2. Capo (musical device) - Wikipedia

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   The word derives from the Italian capotasto, which means the nut of a stringed instrument. The earliest known use of capotasto is by Giovanni Battista Doni who, in his Annotazioni of 1640, uses it to describe the nut of a viola da gamba. [1] The first patented capo was designed by James Ashborn of Wolcottville, Connecticut year 1850. [2]

3. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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   Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)

4. Glossary of flamenco terms - Wikipedia

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   a song form which started as a street snail-vendor's song in Zarzuela (a popular Spanish form of operetta) cartageneras song form derived from the taranta, with a florid vocal line, more "artistic" and decorative than forceful and rough castañuelas castanets cejilla capotasto or capo, used by guitarists to raise tone of all strings; a ...

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   The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3] It is available in different languages, such as English, Spanish and French. The service also contains pronunciation audio, Google Translate, a word origin chart, Ngram Viewer, and word games, among other features for the English-language version.

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

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   Definition Campana: bell: A bell used in an orchestra; also campane "bells" Cornetto: little horn: An old woodwind instrument Fagotto: bundle: A bassoon, a woodwind instrument played with a double reed Orchestra: orchestra, orig. Greek orkesthai "dance" An ensemble of instruments Piano(forte) soft-loud: A keyboard instrument Piccolo: little: A ...

8. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs - Wikipedia

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   The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...

9. Capo - Wikipedia

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   Capo, short for Caporegime, a rank in the Mafia; Capo dei capi, or capo di tutti capi, Italian for "boss of bosses", a phrase used to indicate a powerful individual in organized crime