Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Forte is also a company who makes excellent photographic paper, you know the light sensitive kind :>) Mike D Felix Lopez de Maturana wrote: > > One word comes through the Italian and means "with great force"; it > >>is >> >>>used as a musical directive and is pronounced "for-tey" in USian >>>English. >>> > > > This is absolutely true! Forte, fortissimo, piano, pianissimo, andante con > moto, are musical terms that if really are in italian every musician in the > world will understand as are annotations written in the score and show the > player how to produce the music. Forte means literally strong and refers to > the level of the sound. > > > Felix > > PS Who besides a retired man, an amateur photographer, is an opera > commentator at my country broadcasting >