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- abbreviation music
ottava oroctava .
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[G:] = Treble clef ([G8:] = Treble clef 8va bassa) [F:] = Bass clef ([F8:] = Bass clef 8va bassa)
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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Device 2 (personal composition) - by tdavis2797 these are excerpts from MY 2nd etude (interim of current progression) entitled "device 2". the emphasis is on the expenditure of a "junction" 8va-to-15ma bassa based contrapuntal device. so the initial movement of the left hand is fashioned after patterns resembling c-c8va bassa-c8va bassa-c15ma bassa which would be executed as 1,4,1,5. the 8va bassa is hit twice, hence the
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Beneath the appeggios and 8va arpeggios of the final measure there were two asterisked phrases in fine print:
Paula's House of Toast P. 2008
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Dr. Randolph, EngK. fh Preceptor to H.R. ft. the Ffi£cc& of Wales. 8va .. 3* pages.
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1796
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I HoHENTAL, BaroMp De poliiica* — * h» 47b I HoLLowAY, RoBBRT, The rat-trap, 8va.
The Monthly Review 1786
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On hepatic difeaies, &c. of Europeaos ia the Weft Indies, 8va. jt, — Ixx, 587
The Monthly Review 1786
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(ed. 8va.pp. 406-7.) "Talem dissentionem ad Marci librum tam misere mutilandum adduxisse quempiam, et quidem tanto cum successu, prorsus incredible est, nec ullo probari potest exemplo."
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established 1813-1888 1871
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The sign _8va ...... _ (an abbreviation of _all'ottava_,
Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928
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Mikuli holds that an appeal to Chopin's manuscripts is of no use as they are full of slips of the pen ” wrong notes and values, wrong accidentals and clefs, wrong slurs and 8va markings, and omissions of dots and chord-intervals.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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G7 thought - throughlovc we'd be mak - ing rA (FINE): > =, - r 8va bassa ---- (loco) fro m f 7 [s - n't she f I Page 23
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