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Solo   /sˈoʊlˌoʊ/   Listen
Solo

noun
(pl. E. solos, It. soli)
1.
Any activity that is performed alone without assistance.
2.
A musical composition for one voice or instrument (with or without accompaniment).
3.
A flight in which the aircraft pilot is unaccompanied.
adverb
1.
Without anybody else or anything else.  Synonyms: alone, unaccompanied.  "The pillar stood alone, supporting nothing" , "He flew solo"
adjective
1.
Composed or performed by a single voice or instrument.
verb
1.
Fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers.
2.
Perform a piece written for a single instrument.



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"Solo" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1530, the dance, that promoter of pure instrumental music, was freely transcribed for the clavier. Little more than a century later, Jean Baptiste Lully (1633-1687) extensively employed the instrument in the orchestration of his operas, and wrote solo ...
— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore
... inquisitors, astonished me greatly by telling me the whole story, giving the names of all the actors. He did not tell me whether any one of the band had betrayed the secret, and I did not care to know; but I could clearly see the characteristic spirit of the aristocracy, for which the 'solo mihi' is the ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... earth. And now the great chorus appeared, crowding this time three sides of the apartment and rising, tier on tier, to the ceiling. We could see the glad faces of the singers and knew how they must be enjoying their work. Brilliant solo parts burst out from one side and the other, and again from the middle throng, but it was impossible to tell from what ...
— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan
... pianoforte solo shows this very clearly to the eye, because the impression made by a long note is a deeply-marked indentation succeeded by the merest shallow scratch—not unlike the impression made by a tadpole on mud—with ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland
... was Berta who did the solo—here rose in a quavering shriek that halted not for keys in their holes or transoms in their sockets: "The worms crawled in and the worms crawled ...
— Beatrice Leigh at College - A Story for Girls • Julia Augusta Schwartz


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