Talk:sotto voce
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Rfd-redundant. The music senses are exactly the same as the others AFAICT, but tagged {{music}}. I think the senses should be removed, the tag should be converted to an explicit categorization, and the etymology should mention that the term was originally used in music and is still more common there. Thoughts?—msh210℠ (talk) 18:31, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- I don't know the term, but if sotto voce is fairly widely used outside of music, I would do exactly that. If it's almost always music, I would use
{{chiefly|music}}and combine the sense, unless they are distinct in a way I don't know of. Like I say, I don't know the term so I will trust others' judgment. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- It definitely isn't used only in music, and more surprising (to me, when I looked it up), it wasn't even used first in music. I think two senses are justified, because in the non-musical sense it means ‘in a low voice’, ie only of speech, whereas as a musical term it doesn't only refer to singing but anything – you can play a piano piece sotto voce, for example. Which I never realised. Ƿidsiþ 20:29, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
- Kept per Widsith. - -sche (discuss) 18:35, 3 February 2012 (UTC)