Ottava may refer to: *

Ottava rima Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, it later came to be popular in the writing of mock-heroic works. Its earliest known use is in the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio. The otta ...

, an Italian rhyming stanza. * In music, an

octave In music, an octave ( la, octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the diapason) is the interval between one musical pitch and another with double its frequency. The octave relationship is a natural phenomenon that has been refer ...

. Particularly in the following musical instructions: ** ''All' ottava alta'' (8va, also ''ottava sopra''),

transpose In linear algebra, the transpose of a matrix is an operator which flips a matrix over its diagonal; that is, it switches the row and column indices of the matrix by producing another matrix, often denoted by (among other notations). The tr ...

music up one octave ** ''All' ottava bassa'' (8vb, also ''ottava sotta''), transpose music down one octave ** ''Coll' ottava'', double at the octave

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