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To: Ditter
I think I remember hearing that Condoleezza is a classical music term...

No. Adjectives in music have Italian masculine endings, such as allego, adagio, crescendo, diminduendo, callando, smorzando, sforzando, etc. Add an Italian feminine "a" at the end, and you'd have a "feminine" classical music term, such as allegra, adagia, etc. There is no condaleezo in classic music. Or in rap, for that matter.

The string instrument "viola" often shows up as a feminine name because it has a feminine ending. Violino and violoncello are masculine, as is faggotto, the Italian term for the bassoon. Fuga, the Italian term for a "fugue", is feminine, but nobody would name their daughter by term in either language.

683 posted on 03/30/2006 3:42:11 PM PST by Publius
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To: Publius

There is "con dolcezza", but the spelling got tangled up in the naming process.


695 posted on 03/30/2006 3:47:59 PM PST by linda_22003
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To: Publius

Several posters on this thread have said that it is a musical term meaning 'with sweetness' but her mother changed it a bit.


725 posted on 03/30/2006 4:05:33 PM PST by Ditter
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