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.

Wise words

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche