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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In music, same as subject or theme.

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Examples

  • His debt to the former is apparent in his borrowing, not only musical material, but also techniques such as soggetto cavato, ostinato, cantus firmus and incipient parody.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Note 236: It might prove worthwhile to analyze the musical structure of "Bella gerit," since Josquin des Prez soon after (1505) composed a work for Ercole d'Este that employed the technique of soggetto cavato, by which the vowels of the duke's name were transposed into pitch material.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Cantus-firmus writing is rarer in Lassus than in Palestrina, but on occasion Lassus could revert to the kind of cantus-firmus procedure used by Josquin and Obrecht; Homo cum in honore esset six voices; published 1566 has a soggetto cavato as cantus firmus on the text ‘Nosce te ipsum’, heard successively in breves, semibreves and minims.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Regia di Daisuke Fukugawa; Hironobu Sakaguchi ha prodotto il gioco e scritto il soggetto.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Lost Odyssey: Intro Movie 2008

  • Ciao! ti ho linkato dal mio blog perche condividiamo più o meno lo stesso soggetto! saluti e buona continuazione!

    New Webcam: The Bacino 2004

  • Rodolfo Mondolfo, La com - prensione del soggetto umano nell'antichità classica

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968

  • For the ancient world, see: R. Mondolfo, La comprensione del soggetto humano nell'antichità classica (Florence, 1958), pp. 574ff.

    WORK FELICE BATTAGLIA 1968

  • [Con il soggetto scenario sardo per il cinema di Grazia Deledda, 1916].

    Grazia Deledda - Autobiography 1926

  • To speak improvised words on a given subject, as the father did, is called "recitare a soggetto."

    Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

  • Il professor Shiba, noto scienziato giapponese, durante una ricerca archeologica, scopre una antica campana di bronzo appartenuta all'antico popolo Yamatai, soggetto alla perfida regina Himika.

    Tokyo Toshokan 2009

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