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basso buffo

Meaning of "basso buffo" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BASSO BUFFO

ˈbasso ˈbuffo


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BASSO BUFFO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Basso buffo is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BASSO BUFFO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bass (voice type)

A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, a bass is typically classified as having a vocal range extending from around the second E below middle C to the E above middle C. Its tessitura, or comfortable range, is normally defined by the outermost lines of the bass clef.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BASSO BUFFO

basser · Basses-Alpes · basset · basset horn · basset hound · Basseterre · bassi · bassinet · bassist · bassness · basso · basso continuo · basso profundo · basso rilievo · bassoon · bassoonist · bassos · basswood · bassy

WORDS THAT END LIKE BASSO BUFFO

biffo · boffo · buffo · bufo · cuffo · deffo · defo · fo · info · mofo · motoscafo · reffo · Yafo

Synonyms and antonyms of basso buffo in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «basso buffo» into 25 languages

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巴索滑稽
1,325 millions of speakers
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basso buffo
570 millions of speakers
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English

basso buffo
510 millions of speakers
hi

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Basso buffo
380 millions of speakers
ar

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باسو بوفو
280 millions of speakers
ru

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бас буфф
278 millions of speakers
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basso Buffo
270 millions of speakers
bn

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বসো বুফো
260 millions of speakers
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basso buffo
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Basso buffo
190 millions of speakers
de

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Baßbuffo
180 millions of speakers
ja

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バッソオペラの道化役
130 millions of speakers
ko

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저음 buffo
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Basso buffo
85 millions of speakers
vi

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basso buffo
80 millions of speakers
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Basso buffo
75 millions of speakers
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Basso buffo
75 millions of speakers
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Basso buffo
70 millions of speakers
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basso buffo
65 millions of speakers
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basso buffo
50 millions of speakers
uk

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бас буф
40 millions of speakers
ro

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basso buffo
30 millions of speakers
el

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basso buffo
15 millions of speakers
af

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basso buffo
14 millions of speakers
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basso Buffo
10 millions of speakers
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basso Buffo
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BASSO BUFFO»

Discover the use of basso buffo in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to basso buffo and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Opera - Dead Or Alive: Production, Performance, and ...
Implying brilliance and dexterity (bravura singing, a bravura aria, etc.). Intended for display and the technical execution of difficult passages. Brio. Animation or sprightliness. Buffo (feminine, buffa). Comic, as in basso buffo and opera buffa.
Ronald E. Mitchell, 1970
2
Mocking Desire
From across the street a basso buffo answers him. From Blaumann's book: A riddle of the philosopher's stone. My name is Aelia laelia Crispis. I am neither man nor woman, neither lass nor lad, neither sinner nor saint. I suffer neither hunger ...
Drago Jančar, 1998
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Songs for Beginning Bass Voice: Selected Songs with an ...
Using U.S.A. Standards Association notation, the ranges required in operatic literature for the various voice types are listed below. Basso profondo D2 to E4 Basso cantante E2 to F4 (Ffl) Basso buffo E, to F4 (F'Q) Bass-baritone F2 to F"4 ( G4) ...
Alan J. Ord, 2001
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Schirmer Pronouncing Pocket Manual of Musical Terms
Basso buffo cv= 31 COMPASS from F to c ' (or d ' ); ex- ^ («) treme compass from C to e'. 3. A singer having such a voice. (Sj Bass (Ger., bahs). Besides the three English meanings above, bass denotes (a) an old bowed instrument between ...
Nicolas Slonimsky, Theodore Baker, Laura Kuhn, 1995
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Mozart: The Early Years 1756-1781
... a drunken song for Cassandro, with three- and four-bar phrases tumbling over one another (this is the main basso buffo role, the centre of the opera's comic interest); and for Simone (the secondary basso buffo) plenty of rapid articulation,  ...
Stanley Sadie, 2006
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Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: The ...
There is a basso buffo, Mengotto, a gardener in love with Cecchina, and a sharp- tongued servant girl, Sandrina, in love with Mengotto. (She also gets a sidekick, Paoluccia, with whom she sings gossipy patter duets.) The last of the newly ...
Richard Taruskin, 2009
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Mozart
... a drunken song for Cassandro, with three- and four-bar phrases tumbling over one another (this is the main basso buffo role, the centre of the opera's comic interest); and for Simone (the secondary basso buffo) plenty of rapid articulation,  ...
Stanley Sadie, 2006
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Driven Into Paradise: The Musical Migration from Nazi ...
1940, 22: "Walter Olitzki, Wagnerian basso-buffo, has been engaged by the Metropolitan Opera and will make his debut during the opening week of the season. He will appear as Beckmesser in the Saturday matinee of 'Die Meistersinger' on ...
Reinhold Brinkmann, Christoph Wolff, 1999
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The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna: A Poetics of ...
The great basso buffo Francesco Benucci was Mozart's first Figaro; he also played Pierotto in I finti eredi (which must have sharpened the effect of the quotation from “Se vuol ballare”), as well as Bartolo in Il barbiere. Le nozze di Figaro, then, ...
Mary Hunter, 1999
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Mozart's Così Fan Tutte: A Compositional History
Benucci qua Benucci cut such a figure as a basso buffo that it was no easy task to scale him down and remodel his persona into that of a Neapolitan gentleman, or ever to forget that he was the living incarnation of Figaro.4 The difficulty in ...
Ian Woodfield, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BASSO BUFFO»

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WNO's 'Cinderella': A longish evening of colorful family fun
Smaller and slighter than the usual basso buffo who takes on this broadly comic (and occasionally nasty) role, Mr. Bordogna's has-been ... «Communities Digital News, May 15»
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Delightful Eastern Opera Don Giovanni Production in Bound Brook
Now, every rake worth his salt requires a wingman; and in this case, it's Leporello, a fine fellow superbly played by Basso Buffo, Hyong Sik Jo. «PR Web, May 15»
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Review: Heavyweight singing anchors Pittsburgh Opera's 'Daughter …
The Sulpice of basso buffo Kevin Glavin, a local favorite, was an ideal merger of vocal depth and comic lightness. As the Marquise ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 15»
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Fine singing lifts BLO's feminist retooling of “Don Giovanni”
His comic timing and wide-ranging basso buffo made him an audience favorite. Looming over all was bass Steven Humes as the ... «Boston Classical Review, May 15»
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Busy UA Student Still Finds the Stage
The joint production is staged by David Ward, a distinguished basso buffo and stage director. In the opera, Romriell plays Madame Flora ... «UANews, Apr 15»
6
Sarasota Opera presents a thrilling Tosca
Ricardo Lugo was a cantankerous and lovable Sacristan, his basso buffo a joy to behold; George Ross Summerville was an excellent spidery ... «Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Mar 15»
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Successful transformation
Equally in good voice was the basso buffo role of Dulcamara taken by Luciano Miotto who ends up admitting that his elixir works even if he ... «Times of Malta, Mar 15»
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Pop Culture Translations for Opera's Most Confusing Terms
Basso buffo: Appearing in more lighthearted operas, the “buffoon bass” is a role sung by a male character in a very low key to comedic effect. «Portland Monthly, Mar 15»
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Opera brings beauty, youthful energy to 'La Bohème'
... the caricature characters Benoit (the landlord) and Alcindoro (Musetta's sugar daddy) Thomas Hammons was a basso buffo who could really ... «Palm Beach Daily News, Jan 15»
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Starring A Great Comprimario
I think these men, along with Maestro Tajo, greatly influenced my passion for the basso buffo repertoire. Roles such as Don Pasquale, ... «San Francisco Classical Voice, Dec 14»
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