Alternate passage indicator, in a score

• Or else, musically
• Direction to an alternative musical passage
• Alternate version, in scores
• Easier version indicator, in music scores
• Easier version, in music scores
• Or, in a musical score
• Alternative passage in music
• Alternative, in music

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
is a musical term for an alternative passage which may be played instead of the original passage. The word ossia comes from the Italian for "alternatively" and was originally spelled o sia , meaning "or be it" (Fallows 774). Ossia passages are very common ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context music English) In a musical score an ossia is an alternative version of the music, often just a few measures long.