Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, same as
subject or theme.
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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Regia di Daisuke Fukugawa; Hironobu Sakaguchi ha prodotto il gioco e scritto il soggetto.
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Ciao! ti ho linkato dal mio blog perche condividiamo più o meno lo stesso soggetto! saluti e buona continuazione!
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Rodolfo Mondolfo, La com - prensione del soggetto umano nell'antichità classica
Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968
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For the ancient world, see: R. Mondolfo, La comprensione del soggetto humano nell'antichità classica (Florence, 1958), pp. 574ff.
WORK FELICE BATTAGLIA 1968
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[Con il soggetto scenario sardo per il cinema di Grazia Deledda, 1916].
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To speak improvised words on a given subject, as the father did, is called "recitare a soggetto."
Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889
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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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