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Rosalia2 Mus.|rəʊˈzɑːlɪə|
Also with small initial. Pl. Rosalias, Rosalie.
[Prob. the personal name Rosalia, occurring in the title of an Italian popular song, Rosalia, mia cara, the melody of which employs this device.]
The repetition of a phrase or passage one note higher, with the retention of the same intervals and a consequent change of key.
[1773C. Burney Present State of Music in Germany II. 327 The French have a term for this tediousness, which is wanting in other languages, they call it Rosalie.] 1801Busby Dict. Mus. s.v., Rosalia, a term applied by the Italians to the repetition of a passage one note higher. 1883Grove Dict. Mus. III. 160/1 Rosalia,..a form of Melody, Vocal or Instrumental, in which a Figure is repeated several times in succession, transposed a note higher at each reiteration. Ibid. 160/2 Schumann has been recently accused of writing Rosalie, usque ad nauseam. 1937G. B. Shaw London Music in 1888–89 30 To give the orchestra symphonic work instead of rosalias and rum-tum. 1944W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. 652/2 Rosalia, a disparaging term denoting the schematic and unimaginative application of sequential treatment... The word applies in particular to sequences which, owing to the exact repetition of the intervals, involve modulation of the key to the higher second. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) VII. 230/2 Rosalia, the name given to the identical repetition of a melody a tone higher, keeping the exact intervals of the notes. |