caccia

American  

[kah-chuh, kaht-chah] / ˈkɑ tʃə, ˈkɑt tʃɑ /

noun

plural

cacce, caccias

1. a 14th-century Italian vocal form for two voices in canon plus an independent tenor, with a text describing the hunt or the cries and noises of village life.

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Etymology

Origin of caccia

< Italian: literally, a hunt; see catch, chase ¹

Example Sentences

But she was accompanied by an intimidating solo Baroque flute and a pair of honking, tonally wayward bassoon-like oboes da caccia.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2015

A tenor bassoon, known as the oboe da caccia, or teneroon, also existed, and if my memory serves me right, Mr Stone rescued one of these instruments from the band of a London boys’ school. 

From Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Foscarini, Relatione 1618: 'Il re ritiene questa sorte di vita nella quale fu habituato, e spende tutto il tempo che puo nella caccia e ne studj.'

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von

The tenoroon, with which the oboe di caccia has been compared, was a high bassoon really on octave and a fifth below.

From Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 by Various

Having given a description in a former chapter of the caccia clamorosa, as wild boar hunting is well termed by the Sardes, repetition would be wearisome.

From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas