• Altissimo (Italian for very high) is the uppermost register on woodwind instruments. For clarinets, which overblow on odd harmonics, the altissimo notes...
    4 KB (540 words) - 17:28, 11 April 2024
  • Look up altissimo or altissima in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Altissimo (Italian, 'very high', feminine form: altissima) is the uppermost register...
    763 bytes (135 words) - 05:05, 10 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Renato Altissimo
    Renato Altissimo (4 October 1940 – 17 April 2015) was an Italian politician and minister. He was born in Portogruaro, near Venice. Altissimo was a member...
    7 KB (180 words) - 19:49, 24 February 2024
  • Naxos comprises numerous companies, divisions, imprints, and labels specializing in classical music but also audiobooks and other genres. The premier label...
    9 KB (728 words) - 17:55, 13 November 2023
  • Cristofano dell'Altissimo (c. 1525–1605) was an Italian painter in Florence. For duke Cosimo I de' Medici he copied in Como at least 280 of the portraits...
    3 KB (298 words) - 12:06, 19 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cogimur jubente altissimo
    Cogimur jubente altissimo is a papal bull issued by Pope Sixtus IV on 8 April 1481 calling for a crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Sixtus granted indulgences...
    845 bytes (82 words) - 23:16, 28 October 2023
  • Altissimo is an album by alto saxophonists Gary Bartz, Lee Konitz, Jackie McLean and Charlie Mariano which was recorded in Denmark in 1973 and first released...
    3 KB (137 words) - 23:00, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Monte Altissimo di Nago
    Monte Altissimo di Nago is one of the highest summits of the Monte Baldo mountain range and thereby part of the Garda Mountains in northern Italy. The...
    2 KB (184 words) - 16:33, 17 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alto saxophone
    is B♭3 to F6 (or F♯6), with the higher altissimo register starting at F♯6 (or G6). The saxophone's altissimo register is more difficult to control than...
    9 KB (1,055 words) - 19:52, 8 April 2024
  • next to the F♯ key. Additionally, skilled players can make use of the altissimo register, which allows them to cover these notes and play even higher...
    14 KB (1,587 words) - 10:53, 3 April 2024