- this an
octave higher than written" (all'
ottava: "at the octave" or all' 8va). 8a or 8va
stands for
ottava, the
Italian word for
octave (or "eighth");...
- (8va, also
ottava sopra),
transpose music up one
octave All'
ottava b****a (8vb, also
ottava sotta),
transpose music down one
octave Coll'
ottava, double...
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Ottava rima is a
rhyming stanza form of
Italian origin.
Originally used for long
poems on
heroic themes, it
later came to be po****r in the
writing of...
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poems favored stanzaic forms,
usually written in
terza rima or
especially ottava rima.
Terza rima is a
rhyming verse stanza form that
consists of an interlocking...
- and then in the 1928
collection The Tower. It
comprises four
stanzas in
ottava rima, each made up of
eight lines of
iambic pentameter. It uses a journey...
-
Giambattista Marino, Adone,
Canto II,
stanza 1 (in Italian).
Ottava rima at Encyclopædia Britannica.
Ottava rima at
Poetry Foundation. Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas...
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containing a
variable number of eight-line
stanzas in
ottava rima (a
rhyme scheme of abababcc).
Ottava rima had been used in
previous Italian romantic epics...
-
Charles Swinburne,
published in
Poems and
Ballads in 1866. It is in
adapted ottava rima and is full of
elaborate use of
literary devices,
particularly alliteration...
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throughout an
entire composition or
portion of a composition)
ottava Octave (e.g.
ottava b****a: an
octave lower)
ouverture (Fr.) see
Overture oversinging...
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developed names of
their own,
separate from the "a-bc" convention, such as the
ottava rima and
terza rima. The
types and use of
differing rhyming schemes are...
