- 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)...
- 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...
-
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...
-
adsuitur pannus, ****
lucus et ara
Dianae et
properantis aquae per
amoenos ambitus agros aut
flumen Rhenum aut
pluuius describitur arcus; sed nunc non erat...
- magistracies, such as age or
experience lex
ambitus – A law
involving electoral bribery and corruption; see
ambitus lex curiata – Any law p****ed by the comitia...
- 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...
- 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...
