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MEZZO [3 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2023-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)
Key term(s)
  • mezzo soprano

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)
Key term(s)
  • mezzo soprano

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engraving and Printmaking (Arts)
DEF

A relief printing process, that is a kind of reverse engraving procedure, in which the entire surface of a copper or steel plate is heavily abraded with a special tool called a rocker, or cradle. The over-all burr thus created prints as a dark, velvety black. The areas to be white in the print are painstakingly rubbed with a burnisher and an engraver's scraper, which smooth and depress those areas so that they do not take the ink in relief printing. ... For half-tones ..., the burr is only partially removed with the scraper or burnisher, leaving areas of variously concentrated dots.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gravure d'art
CONT

Le mezzotinte [...] ou manière noire, est un procédé de gravure en creux. La planche de cuivre est dépolie à l'aide d'un berceau; la surface légèrement rugueuse retient l'encre; l'épreuve est alors entièrement noire. Le graveur polit ensuite plus ou moins certaines parties du brunissoir, ce qui lui permet d'obtenir toute la gamme des valeurs du noir au blanc. Parfois, le trait est gravé à l'eau-forte ou au burin avant l'application du mezzotinte, ou même après.

OBS

Le terme mezzotinte s'applique à la fois au procédé de gravure et à l'œuvre créée. On mentionne les admirables mezzotintes de Lucas, le mezzotintiste.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Singing
DEF

A woman's voice with a range between that of the soprano and contralto.

Key term(s)
  • mezzo soprano

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chant
DEF

Voix de femme intermédiaire entre le soprano et le contralto.

OBS

Pluriel : des mezzo-sopranos.

OBS

mezzo-sopranos (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Canto
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