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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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

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...

local volunteers. Kyle 2007, p. 280. Kyle is citing Cicero's Lex Tullia Ambitu. Richlin 1992, Shelby Brown, "Death as Decoration: Scenes of the Arena on...

penalties were used. In the late Republic, the public crimes were: Repetundae Ambitus Majestas Peculatus Falsum De Sicariis et Veneficis De Patricidis The last...

vibratory pattern of the vocal folds, sequential pitches, and type of sound. Ambitus Chest register Head register Organ stop and organ registration Tessitura...

network of narrow streets (stenopoi) and streets between individual houses (ambitus). Numerous houses, both of residential nature and mixed house-artisan workshops...

von Zakhar Bron. (N. Madoyan, D. Garett, M. Vengerov, V. Repin). Label Ambitus Musikproduktion 1994: Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas / Five Melodies...

3: 11th-Century Syntheses, (i) Italian Theory of Modal Functions, (b) Ambitus." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie...

by the invalidation of the results. They were accused and convicted of ambitus, electoral corruption, preventing them from entering office and expelling...

used to describe the mode newly-numbered as mode 11, with final on B, ambitus from that note to the octave above, and with semitones therefore between...

season. Maintaining the basis of its squad, Nacional dominated the national ambitus for three consecutive years (2000, 2001 and 2002.) In 2005 Nacional decided...

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Bribery". Ambitus Bid rigging Bribe Payers Index Charbonneau Commission Conflict of interest...