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- noun music A
transverse flute of theBaroque period, made in three or four sections with aconical bore from the head joint down.
Etymologies
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Now often called the traverso (from the Italian), it was made in three or four sections, or joints, with a conical bore from the head joint down.
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Now often called the traverso (from the Italian), it was made in three or four sections, or joints, with a conical bore from the head joint down.
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Now often called the traverso (from the Italian), it was made in three or four sections, or joints, with a conical bore from the head joint down.
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Now often called the traverso (from the Italian), it was made in three or four sections, or joints, with a conical bore from the head joint down.
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From L'Evoluzione della Musica, A traverso la storia della Cadenza perfetta ( "The Evolution of Music, Throughout the History of the Perfect Cadence"), by Alfredo Casella, 1919.
Gaining One's Definition Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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From L'Evoluzione della Musica, A traverso la storia della Cadenza perfetta ( "The Evolution of Music, Throughout the History of the Perfect Cadence"), by Alfredo Casella, 1919.
Archive 2007-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Quando sorridi metti la testa di traverso come in uno smile?
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » International internet-free day 2005
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The instrument was therefore held _across_ [traverso] the face of the player, whose head would be turned sideways, and hence comes Shylock's description of it as the 'wryneck'd' fife.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Italians Antonio Vivaldi and Pietro Locatelli, and Germans Georg Phillipp Telemann and Johann Joachim Quantz, wrote significant collections of sonatas and chamber works for the traverso.
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In addition to chamber music, the traverso began to be used in orchestral music, eventually occupying an exalted status amongst the woodwinds.
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