| 释义 |
‖ ottava|otˈtava|
[It. ottava eighth, octave.]
1. Mus. An octave; chiefly in the phrases ottava alta, ottava bassa, indicating that a passage is to be played an octave higher, or lower, than written. (Usually abbrev. 8va.)
1848Rimbault First Bk. Piano 13 To avoid many ledger⁓lines below the staff, the notes are sometimes written eight degrees higher than their real place in the system, and the words ottava bassa, or 8va bassa, placed under them, to shew that they are to be played an octave lower than..written.
2. ottava rima |ˈrima|. An Italian stanza of eight 11-syllabled lines, riming as a b a b a b c c; the English adaptation, as used by Byron, has English heroic lines of ten syllables.
1820Shelley Lett. Pr. Wks. 1880 IV. 178, I am translating in ottava rima the Hymn to Mercury, of Homer. 1875Lowell Spenser Pr. Wks. 1890 IV. 328 He found the ottava rima too monotonously iterative. 1880Macm. Mag. 51 The three important verse-forms which English poetry owes to Italy, the ottava-rima, the sonnet, and the sestina. |