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ob·bli·ga·to
[ob-li-gah-toh; It. awb-blee-gah-taw] adjective, noun, plural -tos, -ti [-tee] . Music. adjective
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(used as a musical direction) obligatory or indispensable; so important that it cannot be omitted.
noun
2.
an obbligato part or accompaniment.
3.
a continuing or persistent subordinate or background motif.
4.
a subordinate part of a solo.
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Obbligati
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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obbligato
musical instruction, 1724, from It., lit. "obligated," from L. obligatus, pp. of obligare "to bind" (see oblige).
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