Volata

This sport beloved by fascists is not music to my ears

E, G, L, O, T, V, and center A (all words must include A)

Silly little dictionary! Don’t you know that volata can’t possibly be a word if the New York Times says it ain’t?

I couldn’t find much regarding the dictionary’s definition of volata. Merriam-Webster explains that the word is borrowed from the Italian, itself from the Latin volare meaning to “fly”.

Interestingly, the Italian term for a “fly ball” in baseball is also volata. That same word also refers to the muzzle of a gun, a sprint in a bicycle race, the arrangement and loading of the explosive material needed to break down a rock face during tunnel work, and a variation of soccer promoted by the Italian fascists before World War II.

In his early 19th-century book A Dictionary Music: Theoretical and Practical, Thomas Busby defines volata as “the appellation sometimes applied by Italians to a division, or rapid flight of notes. See Roulade”. And he defines roulade (or roulemen) as “a term applied to all kinds of rapid movements, or passages; but particularly to a rapid flight of notes extemporaneously introduced as an embellishment. See Volata”.

So just like the dictionary, we seem to ping-pong between the two terms. What’s clear is that a volata implies both speed and floridity. So does a roulade, except when it refers to the filled and rolled meat and pastry dish.

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