Forte or Forté may refer to:

Music

Forte (music) In music, the dynamics of a piece are the variation in loudness between note (music), notes or phrase (music), phrases. Dynamics are indicated by specific musical notation, often in some detail. However, dynamics markings require interpretation ...

, a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong" *

Forte number In musical set theory, a Forte number is the pair of numbers Allen Forte assigned to the prime form of each pitch class set of three or more members in ''The Structure of Atonal Music'' (1973, ). The first number indicates the number of pitch cl ...

, an ordering given to every pitch class set *

Forte (notation program) Forte is a music notation program developed by the German company ''Lugert Verlag'', located in Handorf. Its name is derived from the dynamic marking of ''forte''. The program is available in both German and English. History The Lugert publishi ...

, a suite of musical score notation programs *

Forte (vocal group) Forte (; styled as FORTE) is a Crossover music#Classical crossover, classical crossover–operatic pop trio comprising tenors Josh Page, Sean Panikkar and Hana Ryu. Forte was created specifically for America's Got Talent (season 8), season eight ...

, a classical crossover singing trio

Computing

Forté 4GL Forté 4GL was a proprietary application server that was developed by Forté Software and used for developing scalable, highly available, enterprise applications. History Forté 4GL was created as an integrated solution for developing and managing ...

, a proprietary application server *

Forté Agent Forté Agent was an email and Usenet news client used on the Windows operating system. Agent was conceived, designed and developed by Mark Sidell and the team at Forté Internet Software in 1994 to address the need for an online/offline newsreader ...

, an email and news client used on the Windows operating system * Forte TeamWare, a family of development environments from Sun Microsystems * NetBeans IDE, formerly Forté for Java

Companies

Forte Design Systems Forte Design Systems, Inc. was a San Jose, CA, based provider of high-level synthesis (HLS) software products, also known as electronic system-level (ESL) synthesis. Forte's main product was Cynthesizer. On February 14, 2014, Forte was acquired ...

, an American software company *

Forte Group Forte Group plc was a British hotel and restaurant company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, F ...

, a former British hotel company *

Forté Internet Software Forte or Forté may refer to: Music *Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong" * Forte number, an ordering given to every pitch class set *Forte (notation program), a suite of musical score notation programs *Forte (vocal gr ...

, makers of Forté Agent * Forte Land, a Chinese large-scale real estate company *

Forte Oil PLC Ardova Plc (formerly Forte Oil PLC) is an indigenous energy group, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, with extended operations in Ghana. It operates majorly in the downstream sector of the Nigeria’s Oil and Gas industry, but has diversified it ...

, former name of Ardova Plc, a Nigerian energy group *

Trust House Forte Forte Group plc was a British hotel and restaurant company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Granada in 1996. Its head office was in the London Borough of Camden. ...

, a British hotel and catering firm

Fictional characters

Forte Stollen This is a list of characters from the game, anime and manga involved in BROCCOLI's ''Galaxy Angel'' and its sequel ''Galaxy Angel II''. Many of the character names are related to food, liquor, and desserts. ''Galaxy Angel'' Moon Angel Troupe ...

, a character from the Galaxy Angel anime * Bass (''Mega Man''), a character in ''Mega Man'' known as "Forte" in Japanese * Bass.EXE, a character from the ''MegaMan NT Warrior'' series known as "Forte" in Japanese *Forte, a character in '' Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas''

Ships

*, various Royal Navy ships * ''Forte''-class frigate, two French Navy warships ** French frigate ''Forte'' (1794), in service 1794–1801

Other uses

Forte (surname) Forte is a surname of Italian origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrian Forte, Jamaican-Canadian celebrity chef * Aldo Forte (1918–2007), American football player * Aldo Rafael Forte (born 1953), Cuban-American composer * Allen Fo ...

8780 Forte __NOTOC__ Year 878 ( DCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * March–April – Wilfred the Hairy (ruler of the Catalan counties) with other supporters of Louis the S ...

, an asteroid *

FORTE Forte or Forté may refer to: Music *Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong" * Forte number, an ordering given to every pitch class set * Forte (notation program), a suite of musical score notation programs * Forte (vocal ...

, Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events satellite *

Forte (fencing) In fencing, forte (from the Romance root meaning "strong") is "the strong part" of the blade—the one-third closest to the hilt. The "strength" refers to the control established over the opponent's weapon upon contact of one's forte with the op ...

, a fencing term for the "strong" part of the blade *

Forte (typeface) Forte is a script typeface, script typeface designed by Austrians, Austrian commercial artist Carl Reissberger on May 8, 1962, for the Monotype Corporation. It started in Windows Vista and ended in 8.1. Design The idea for the script face came fro ...

, included in various editions of Microsoft Office *

Forte (horse) Forte (foaled February 3, 2020) is a retired champion American Thoroughbred racehorse. As a two-year-old, he won the Graded stakes race, Grade I Hopeful Stakes, Breeders' Futurity and Breeders' Cup Juvenile en route to being named American Champ ...

, an American thoroughbred race horse *

Kia Forte The Kia Forte (), known as the K3 in Asia, the Forte K3 or Shuma in China and Cerato in South America, Australia, New Zealand and Russia, is a compact car manufactured by South Korean automaker Kia from mid-2008 until 2024, replacing the Kia S ...

, a mid-size sedan car *

Mitsubishi Forte The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries. Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group traces its origins to the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company that existed from 1870 to 1946 ...

, original name of the Mitsubishi Triton, a mid-size pickup truck *

FC Forte Taganrog FC Forte Taganrog () was a Russian football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''foo ...