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power. The Latin word ambitus is the origin of the English word "ambition" which is another of its original meanings; ambitus was the process of "going...

specifically, the ambitus is the range, or the distance between the highest and lowest note. Different chants vary widely in their ambitus. Even relatively...

Ambitus refers to the range of pitches used in the melody. Melodies whose final is in the middle of the ambitus, or which have only a limited ambitus...

boundaries of ambitus were not legally defined, and indeed overlapped closely with expected political practice: as Cicero noted, ambitus (self-promotion)...

Aufidia de ambitu, sometimes referred to as the lex Aufidia de ambitu, was a proposed Roman law, aimed at punishing electoral bribery, ambitus. It is known...

part of a musical piece. Hence, in musical notation, tessitura is the ambitus, or a narrower part of it, in which that particular vocal (or less often...

adsuitur pannus, cum lucus et ara Dianae et properantis aquae per amoenos ambitus agros aut flumen Rhenum aut pluuius describitur arcus; sed nunc non erat...

are described as trebles, although boy soprano is widely used as well. Ambitus Voice classification in non-classical music Scientific pitch notation McKinney...

above. In both cases, the strict ambitus of the mode is one octave. A melody that remains confined to the mode's ambitus is called "perfect"; if it falls...

magistracies, such as age or experience lex ambitus – A law involving electoral bribery and corruption; see ambitus lex curiata – Any law passed by the comitia...

up one octave to the G above, or as a mode whose final was G and whose ambitus runs from the F below the final to the G above, with possible extensions...

produce two segments: The second is as a mode with a final on F and an ambitus extending to F an octave higher and in which the note C was regarded as...

semitone-tone-tone-tone pentachord, followed by a semitone-tone-tone tetrachord: The ambitus of this mode extended one tone lower, to D. The sixth degree, C, which...

tone–semitone–tone–tone continuing from D, and (2) as a mode whose final was D and whose ambitus was G–B♭ (that is, with B♮ below the final and B♭ above it). In addition...

(2005, mode records) Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations (2002, ambitus) Michael Gordon: Weather (1997, nonesuch records) Sabine Lurtz. "Ensemble...

Naturhorn, Op. 28; (J. Schroeder) Ambitus 97 981 DeKrufFt, Mcholas Sonata in F major for Piano and Naturhorn; (J. Schroeder) Ambitus 97 981 Three Preludes and...

Antonius expelled him from the Senate. Duronius then brought an accusation of ambitus against Antonius. Aulus Gellius 2.24.10; Macrobius 3.17.7; T.R.S. Broughton...

basset Classification Woodwind, clarinet family Playing range Ambitus written Ambitus Bassethorn in F, sounding Related instruments Clarinet d'amore...

Temple of Jupiter. Orlin, in Rüpke (ed.), 66. Otherwise, electoral bribery (ambitus): see Cicero, Letters to friends, 2.3: see also Beard et al., Vol. 1, 65–67...

praetor for the following year, coming in last, and was promptly accused of ambitus (electoral corruption). Being accused of electoral corruption was common...