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- obbligato: required, indispensable
- octave: interval between one
musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency. 12 semitones equals
an octave, so does the first and eighth (hence "oct"ave) note in a major or
minor scale.
- omaggio: homage, celebration
- one-voice-per-part, or OVPP:
the practice of using solo voices on each musical line or part in choral
music.
- organ trio: in jazz or rock, a
group of three musicians which includes a Hammond
organplayer and two other instruments, often an electric
guitar player and a drummer.
- ossia or oppure:
or instead; i.e., according to some specified alternative way of performing
a passage, which is marked with a footnote, additional small notes, or an
additional staff
- ostinato: obstinate, persistent;
i.e., a short musical pattern that is repeated throughout an entire
composition or portion of a composition
- ottava: octave; e.g. ottava
bassa: an octave lower
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