battalia

[buh-teyl-yuh, -tahl-]

noun

Obsolete.

1. order of battle.

2. an armed or arrayed body of troops.

Word History and Origins

Origin of battalia¹

1585–95; < Italian battaglia body of troops, battle ¹

Example Sentences

“They’ve put in all this time to get you,” said Paula Battalia Brand, a career coach in Annapolis, Maryland.

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“They’ve put in all this time to get you,” said Paula Battalia Brand, a career coach and consultant in Annapolis, Md. “It’s going to take them at least four weeks just to go through that process again.”

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The program began with an ingenious intermingling of movements from Heinrich Biber’s 1673 piece “Battalia,” an evocation of the Thirty Years’ War, and George Crumb’s 1970 “Black Angels,” a white-hot response to Vietnam.

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Alternating sections of Biber’s 17th-century “Battalia” and George Crumb’s Vietnam-era “Black Angels” made an effectively haunting reflection on the persistence of war.

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"Battalia," written in 1673, is a startling nine-minute outlier for a handful of strings and harpsichord that describes battle from the point of view of drunken and wounded soldiers over the course of several tiny movements.

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