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Definition of Fagotto
1. n. The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.
Definition of Fagotto
1. a bassoon [n FAGOTTI] - See also: bassoon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fagotto
Literary usage of Fagotto
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"There are delightful contrapuntal devices in the scoring, all the wind instruments
have obbligato passages, one air a vigorous fagotto obbligato throughout. ..."
2. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"A kind of bass oboe of four tubes bound together [It. fagotto, ie a bundle}, of
rich tone, very valuable to the composer. Double £., introduced 1784 ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In the meanwhile we get a clue to the early history of the pommer in transition,
but we find it under a different name in no way connected with fagotto. ..."
4. The Organ of the Twentieth Century: A Manual on All Matters Relating to the by George Ashdown Audsley (1919)
"Below Bb the pipes should strictly be of the fagotto class, because the true
fagotto provides the proper bass to the Oboe of the orchestra. ..."
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