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

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    Definition Bel canto: beautiful singing: Any fine singing, esp. that popular in 18th- and 19th-century Italian opera Bravura: skill: A performance of extraordinary virtuosity Bravo: skillful: A cry of congratulation to a male singer or performer. (Masc. pl. bravi; fem. sing. brava; fem. pl. brave.)

  3. Vive, viva, and vivat - Wikipedia

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    Viva in Spanish (plural Vivan), [1] Portuguese (plural Vivam), and Italian (Also evviva. Vivano in plural is rare), [2] Vive in French, and Vivat in Latin (plural Vivant) are subjunctive forms of the verb "to live." Being the third-person (singular or plural agreeing with the subject), subjunctive present conjugation, the terms express a hope ...

  4. Bravi - Wikipedia

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    The priest don Abbondio sees at once that the thugs waiting for him are bravi.A scene from the opening of Manzoni’s I promessi sposi.. Bravi (sing.bravo; sometimes translated as 'bravoes') were coarse soldiers or hired assassins [1] employed by the rural lords (or dons) of northern Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to protect their interests.

  5. Olé - Wikipedia

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    ¡Ole! or ¡olé! is a Spanish interjection used to cheer on or praise a performance, especially associated with the audience of bullfighting and flamenco dance. The word is also commonly used in many other contexts in Spain, and has become closely associated with the country; therefore it is often used outside Spain in cultural representation ...

  6. Bravo - Wikipedia

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    Bravo (application), software design to track number of players at a poker room in casinos; Bravo (editor), the first WYSIWYG word processor, developed at Xerox PARC; Bravo (Saudi Arabia), a digital radio trunking operator; Bravo (supermarket), an American grocery store chain; Chlorothalonil, sold under the brand name Bravo, a fungicide

  7. Largo al factotum - Wikipedia

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    Tutti mi chiedono, tutti mi vogliono, donne, ragazzi, vecchi, fanciulle: Qua la parrucca ... Presto la barba ... Qua la sanguigna ... Presto il biglietto ... Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!, ecc. Ahimè, che furia! Ahimè, che folla! Uno alla volta, per carità! Ehi, Figaro! Son qua. Figaro qua, Figaro là, Figaro su, Figaro giù. Pronto prontissimo ...

  8. List of English words of Italian origin - Wikipedia

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    Lingua franca (Italian lingua Franca, 'Frankish language', its usage to mean a common tongue originated from its meaning in Arabic and Greek during the Middle Ages, whereby all Western Europeans were called 'Franks' or Faranji in Arabic and Phrankoi in Greek) [4] [5] Motto (Italian motto 'word') [6] Novel (Italian novella 'tale') Ottava rima

  9. Sancho IV of Castile - Wikipedia

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    Sancho IV of Castile (12 May 1258 – 25 April 1295) called the Brave (el Bravo), was the king of Castile, León and Galicia (now parts of Spain) from 1284 to his death. . Following his brother Ferdinand's death, he gained the support of nobles who declared him king instead of Ferdinand's son Al