Info Catalog music-glossary: alto clef music-glossary: Musical terms A-Z music-glossary: anacrusis

music-glossary: ambitus

 
 1.15 ambitus
 ============
 
 ES: ámbito, I: ambitus, F: ambitus, tessiture, D: Ambitus, NL: ambitus,
 DK: ambitus, S: ambitus, FI: ambitus, ääniala, soitinala.
 
    [Latin: past participle of _ambire_, ‘to go around’; plural: ambitus]
 Denotes a range of pitches for a given voice in a part of music.  It may
 also denote the pitch range that a musical instrument is capable of
 playing.  Sometimes anglicized to _ambit_ (pl.  _ambits_).
 
 
 See also
 ........
 
    No cross-references.
 

Info Catalog music-glossary: alto clef music-glossary: Musical terms A-Z music-glossary: anacrusis