ottava bassa

one octave lower than written Ottava bassa means to play the notes one octave lower than written. The 8vb sign is often used.

nounMusic. a direction (8va), placed above or below the staff to indicate that the passage covered is to be played one octave higher or lower respectively.

bah-sah. [Italian, low or deep] Low or deep (as in pitch). For example, the notation 8va bassa tells the performer to play the notes an octave lower than what is written.

The Octave Sign - For Notes, Phrases or Sections of Music To indicate that multiple notes, a phrase or a section of music is to be played one octave higher, the 8va sign is written above the first note.

ottava rima, Italian stanza form composed of eight 11-syllable lines, rhyming abababcc. It originated in the late 13th and early 14th centuries and was developed by Tuscan poets for religious verse and drama and in troubadour songs.

Italian. Boccaccio used ottava rima for a number of minor poems and, most significantly, for two of his major works, the Teseide (1340) and the Filostrato (c. 1335). These two poems defined the form as the main one to be used for epic poetry in Italian for the next two centuries.

The form is similar to the older Sicilian octave, but evolved separately and is unrelated. The Sicilian octave is derived from the medieval strambotto and was a crucial step in the development of the sonnet, whereas the ottava rima is related to the canzone, a stanza form.

eight ottava rima, Italian stanza form composed of eight 11-syllable lines, rhyming abababcc.

The Bassa are a cultural group related to the better known Dan people who reside along the coastal areas of Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire. They typically live in farming villages of about 200 residents and raise staple crops of rice and cassava.

Historians have traced the Bassa's origins back to Egypt nearly six thousand years ago.

at the octave [Abbreviation, all' ottava] Abbreviation for all' ottava or "at the octave." This indication is most often found above specific notes on a staff and indicates that those notes should be performed one octave higher than written.

An octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with double or half its frequency. For example, if one note has a frequency of 440 Hz, the note one octave above is at 880 Hz, and the note one octave below is at 220 Hz. The ratio of frequencies of two notes an octave apart is therefore 2:1.