Wednesday, November 28, 2012

THE FIRST WORD


spezzato
Not to be confused with sprezzatura, which is the art of unstudied elegance, spezzato literally translates as "broken in two." Quite simply, it describes a combination of jacket and trousers that's not a matching suit.
The word "spezzato" is also used in the musical term coro spezzato, or "broken choir," which is used for the practice of having choirs separated across large spaces, singing alternately for a kind of stereo effect. St. Mark's in Venice has double choir lofts used for this kind of singing.

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