Associations to the word «Ottava»

Wiktionary

OTTAVA, adverb. (music) One octave higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up one octave. Abbreviation: 8va.
OTTAVA RIMA, noun. (poetry) A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet.

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