Crossword clues for piccolo
piccolo
- Highest-pitched woodwind
- Flute's cousin
- Flute relative
- Flute's smaller cousin
- Play this and you'll end on a high note?
- Literally, "little"
- Literally, ''small''
- It's found in the winds
- Half-sized flute
- Flutelike instrument
- Flute's little kin
- Flute's kid brother
- Flute-like instrument
- Flute that's fancier than a fife
- "Stars and Stripes Forever" solo instrument
- Pitched an octave above the standard flute
- A small flute
- Fife's cousin
- Choose a deep sound? Not from this!
- Small flute
- Picture army officer with old musical instrument
- Photo leading to surprised comment about large instrument
- Image surprisingly cool for an orchestral instrument
- High wind still cool everywhere
- High flute
- Musical instrument
- Wind instrument
- High wind
- High-pitched flute
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Octave \Oc"tave\, n. [F., fr. L. octava an eighth, fr. octavus eighth, fr. octo eight. See Eight, and cf. Octavo, Utas.]
The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival. ``The octaves of Easter.''
--Jer. Taylor.-
(Mus.)
The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.
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The whole diatonic scale itself.
Note: The ratio of a musical tone to its octave above is 1:2 as regards the number of vibrations producing the tones.
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(Poet.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
With mournful melody it continued this octave.
--Sir P. Sidney.Double octave. (Mus.) See under Double.
Octave flute (Mus.), a small flute, the tones of which range an octave higher than those of the German or ordinary flute; -- called also piccolo. See Piccolo.
A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, piccolo flute, from French piccolo, from Italian flauto piccolo "small flute," from piccolo "small," perhaps a children's made-up word, or from picca "point," or from Vulgar Latin root *pikk- "little," related to *piccare "to pierce" (see pike (n.2)). Other sources suggest it is from the same source as French petit (see petit (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context musici English) An instrument similar to a flute, but smaller, and playing an octave higher. 2 A waiter's assistant in a hotel or restaurant. 3 A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 liters of fluid, 1/4 the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or snipe.
WordNet
n. a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute
Wikipedia
The piccolo (; Italian for "small", but named ottavino in Italy) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The modern piccolo has most of the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written. This gave rise to the name ottavino (Italian for "little octave"), the name by which the instrument is referred to in the scores of Italian composers.
Piccolos are now only manufactured in the key of C ; however, they were once also available in D. It was for this D piccolo that John Philip Sousa wrote the famous solo in the final repeat of the closing section (trio) of his march " The Stars and Stripes Forever".
In the orchestral setting, the piccolo player is often designated as "piccolo/flute III", or even "assistant principal". The larger orchestras have designated this position as a solo position due to the demands of the literature. Piccolos are often orchestrated to double the violins or the flutes, adding sparkle and brilliance to the overall sound because of the aforementioned one-octave transposition upwards. In concert band settings, the piccolo is almost always used and a piccolo part is almost always available.
The first known use of the word piccolo was c. 1854, though the English were using the term already at least thirteen years earlier.
is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. He is first seen as the reincarnation of the evil Piccolo Daimao in chapter #161 , published in Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on February 22, 1988, making him a demon and archrival of the protagonist Goku. However, it is later revealed that he is a member of a extraterrestrial humanoid species called Namekians, those able to create the series' titular wish-granting Dragon Balls. After losing to Goku, Piccolo decides to team up with him and his friends in order to defeat newer, more dangerous threats. He also trains Goku's first child Gohan in martial arts, with the two forming a strong bond.
A piccolo is a small flute.
Piccolo may also refer to:
Piccolo (also sold under the trade names Great Bawang, Piccolo Corsair and numerous others) is a name given to a type of firecracker of European or Asian origin in the form of a thin small cylindrical stick filled with gunpowder and lit in the same way as a match.
Piccolo is a 1977 release by the Ron Carter Quartet. The quartet consists of Ron Carter on piccolo bass, Kenny Barron on piano, Buster Williams on bass, and Ben Riley on drums. The album was recorded live at Sweet Basil in New York City on March 25–26, 1977. Piccolo is considered one of Ron Carter's best albums from the later 70's due to its excellent recording, live-club feel, and exquisite musicianship. After being brought together by Carter and playing in his quartet for a few years, Barron, Williams, and Riley went on to form Sphere with Charlie Rouse.
Piccolo (foaled 8 May 1991) is a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed promising but unremarkable form in his early career, winning one of his first ten starts. In the summer of his three-year-old season he was switched to sprint distances and became a top class performer, winning the Chipchase Stakes before being awarded the Nunthorpe Stakes on the disqualification of Blue Siren. He returned as a four-year-old in 1995 and won the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot. Apart from his victories he also finished second in both the Haydock Sprint Cup and the July Cup. After his retirement from racing he became a successful breeding stallion.
Piccolo is a surname which may refer to:
- Alessandro Piccolo (born 1980), Italian racing driver
- Antonio Piccolo (born 1988), Italian footballer
- Antonio Piccolo (footballer born 1990), Italian footballer
- Brian Piccolo (1943–1970), American National Football League player
- Felice Piccolo (born 1983), Italian footballer
- Frank Piccolo (1921-1981), American mobster
- Francesco Piccolo (born 1964), Italian writer and screen writer
- Francesco Piccolo (politician), leader of the Venetian People's Movement
- Francisco María Piccolo (1654–1729), Sicilian Jesuit missionary in Mexico
- María Jimena Piccolo (born 1985), Argentine actress
- Michele Piccolo (born 1985), Italian footballer
- Ottavia Piccolo (born 1949), Italian theatre and film actress
- Renato Piccolo (born 1962), Italian former cyclist
- Rina Piccolo, Canadian cartoonist
- Sol Piccolo (born 1996), Argentine female volleyball player
- Tony Piccolo (born 1960), Australian politician
Usage examples of "piccolo".
It was like the whistling of a piccolo many times magnified -- shrill and shriller till it keened with the terror of a lost soul and filled the room with the piercingness of itself.
The four of them sang the Sharped Mixolydian Quartet, and Sarangi became the hindmother of Piccolo.
He could swell his big belly and roar like a sousaphone, could purse his lips sweetly, close his eyes, and whistle like a piccolo.
Appena ancorata i nostri amici videro scendere da Capo Liberi, piccolo villaggio che domina il porto, un gruppo di gente che giunse alla marina, imbarcossi in un palischermo e si diresse verso lo Yacht.
Luitpold Wolkenstein had disposed of the pretensions and strivings of the Balkan States over the cup of cream-topped coffee that sleek-headed piccolos had brought him.
C'era stato bisogno semplicemente di un rapido viaggio nel 2456° per scoprire la natura dell'analogo di Noys nella nuova Realtà, esercitando un piccolo ricatto.
Riempii il primo di viveri, cioè pane, riso, tre formaggi olandesi, cinque pezzi di carne di capretto disseccata, di cui solitamente ci nutrivamo, e un piccolo residuo di grano europeo che tenevamo in disparte per cibarne qualche pollo che avevamo imbarcato con noi, ma che poi ci eravamo mangiati.
C'erano libri, certo, ma i ripiani ospitavano molte altre cose: racchette da tennis, bastoni da hockey, ombrelli, una vanga, un computer portatile, una gamba di legno, svariate tazzine, decine di scarpe, binocoli, un piccolo ceppo, sei burattini, una lampada di lava, numerosi CD, dischi (LP, 45 giri, 78 giri), videocassette e filmini in superotto, dadi, automobiline giocattolo, dentiere, orologi, torce, quattro gnomi da giardino di misure assortite (due che pescano, uno dall'aria trasognata), pile di giornali, riviste, libri di magia per stregoni, sgabelli a tre piedi, una scatola di sigari, un pastore tedesco di plastica con la testa che va su e giù, calzini.
The cymbals in Beethoven's head had stopped, the piccolo too, and all that was left was the droning of the bassi in the trio of the C Minor Symphony, that grotesque dance toward Hell.
Significa che descrive attorno al suo Polo Celeste un piccolo cerchio del diametro di circa 2,0 gradi.
Ricordo, in particolare, una volta che ci ancorammo di prima mattina sotto un piccolo promontorio abbastanza elevato sul mare, e siccome la marea si stava alzando, sostammo in attesa di poterci accostare maggiormente.
Qualcuno che non ha avuto un piccolo scontro nel fango e non si è messo a giocare a 'Indovinala grillo!
Bobby's platoon can hear the thumpity-thump of the big drums and the piercing noises from piccolos and glockenspiels but he can't follow the tune.
Bobby’s platoon can hear the thumpity-thump of the big drums and the piercing noises from piccolos and glockenspiels but he can’t follow the tune.
Tenendosi ben saldo, si issò sul piccolo incavo alla base del collo, mentre lei.