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Alto (other)
Alto (Italian for "high") is a musical term that has several possible interpretations. Alto may also refer to: Places Brazil *Alto, Teresópolis, a neighborhood in Teresópolis, Brazil Italy *Alto, Piedmont, a ''comune'' in the Province of Cuneo United States *Alto, Arizona, a ghost town in Santa Cruz County *Alto, California, a former unincorporated community in Marin County *Alto, Georgia, a town divided between Banks County and Habersham County *Alto, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Howard County *Alto, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Kent County *Alto, New Mexico, an unincorporated community in Lincoln County *Alto, Texas, a town in Cherokee County *Alto, Wisconsin, a town in Fond du Lac County **Alto (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County People *Alto of Altomünster, a German saint *Alto, spouse of Mr Percival, famous Australian pelican and film actor Music *Alto, a voice part in choral music, sung by either: **Alto or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alto
The musical term alto, meaning "high" in Italian (Latin: '' altus''), historically refers to the contrapuntal part higher than the tenor and its associated vocal range. In four-part voice leading alto is the second-highest part, sung in choruses by either low women's or high men's voices. In vocal classification these are usually called contralto and male alto or countertenor. Etymology In choral music for mixed voices, "alto" describes the lowest part commonly sung by women. The explanation for the anomaly of this name is to be found not in the use of adult falsettists in choirs of men and boys but further back in innovations in composition during the mid-15th century. Before this time it was usual to write a melodic ''cantus'' or '' superius'' against a tenor (from Latin ''tenere'', to hold) or 'held' part, to which might be added a contratenor, which was in counterpoint with (in other words, against = contra) the tenor. The composers of Ockeghem's generation wrot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alto Saxophone
The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ (musical note), E, smaller than the B♭ (musical note), B Tenor saxophone, tenor but larger than the B Soprano saxophone, soprano. It is the most common saxophone and is used in popular music, concert bands, chamber music, List of concert works for saxophone, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, pep bands, carnatic music, and jazz (such as big bands, jazz combos, swing music). The alto saxophone had a prominent role in the development of jazz. Influential jazz musicians who made significant contributions include Don Redman, Jimmy Dorsey, Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter, Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt, Lee Konitz, Jackie McLean, Phil Woods, Art Pepper, Paul Desmond, and Cannonball Adderley. Although the role of the alto saxophone in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alto's Adventure
''Alto's Adventure'' is a 2015 endless runner snowboarding video game developed by Team Alto and published by Snowman (company), Snowman (iOS) and Noodlecake Studios (Android). The player-character automatically moves to the right of the screen through procedural generation, procedurally generated landscapes. The player taps the screen to jump and perform tricks (backflips), and works towards goals, competitive high scores, and upgrades. Snowman, a Toronto-based, three-person indie video game development, indie development team, previously worked on productivity apps before ''Alto's Adventure''. The game was made to emulate the ethereal atmosphere of snowboarding, and was inspired by ''Ski Safari'' (2012), ''Tiny Wings'' (2012), ''Jetpack Joyride'' (2011), ''Journey (2012 video game), Journey'' (2012), ''Monument Valley (video game), Monument Valley'' (2014), ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2'' (2000), and ''Windosill'' (2009). The game was released on February 19, 2015, initially for iO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilfisk-Advance
Nilfisk is a supplier of professional cleaning equipment in both industrial, commercial and consumer markets. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with sales entities in 45 countries and dealers in more than 100 countries. Nilfisk has manufacturing facilities in various countries. It has approximately 4,844 employees worldwide. The company's core businesses are the supply of industrial and commercial cleaning machines and professional high-pressure cleaning equipment. Nilfisk also markets vacuum cleaners and high-pressure cleaners to consumers. The company was owned by NKT Holding until late 2017. Nilfisk is a part of the United Nations Global Compact. The company was spun off by NKT Holdings in October 2017 and is now listed as an independent company on Nasdaq Copenhagen. History Nilfisk was founded in Denmark in 1906 by Peder Andersen Fisker (1875–1975) and Hans Marius Nielsen (1870–1954) as ''Fisker & Nielsen''. Originally the company produced electric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air-launch-to-orbit
Air-launch-to-orbit (ALTO) is the method of launching smaller rockets at altitude from a heavier conventional horizontal-takeoff aircraft, to carry satellites to low Earth orbit. It is a follow-on development of air launches of experimental aircraft that began in the late 1940s. This method, when employed for orbital payload insertion, presents significant advantages over conventional vertical rocket launches, particularly because of the reduced mass, thrust, cost of the rocket, geographical factors, and natural disasters. Air launching has also been developed for sub-orbital spaceflight. In 2004 the Ansari X Prize $10 Million purse was won by a team led by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, launching the SpaceShipOne from the purpose-built White Knight carrier aircraft. The first air-launch-to-orbit was a test launch of the ASM-135 ASAT antisatellite rocket, the first commercial air-launch-to-orbit took place on 5 April 1990 with a Northrop Grumman Pegasus. Advantages The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALTO (XML)
Analyzed Layout and Text Object (ALTO) is an open XML Schema developed by the EU-funded project called METAe. The standard was initially developed for the description of text Optical character recognition, OCR and layout information of pages for digitized material. The goal was to describe the layout and text in a form to be able to reconstruct the original appearance based on the digitized information - similar to the approach of a lossless image saving operation. ALTO is often used in combination with Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) for the description of the whole digitized object and creation of references across the ALTO files, e.g. reading sequence description. The standard is hosted by the Library of Congress since 2010 and maintained by the Editorial Board initialized at the same time. In the time from the final version of the ALTO standard in June 2004 (version 1.0) ALTO was maintained by CCCCS Content Conversion Specialists GmbH, Hamburgup to version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALTO (protocol)
Application Layer Transport Optimization (ALTO) is a protocol that allows internet clients to obtain information that compares the network properties of paths to other endpoints. Typically, this would be used to identify the lowest-cost location to access a copy of some sort of content. The ALTO base protocol is specified in RFC 7285. It requires "ALTO servers" to be deployed in the network with knowledge of network properties, often simply the routing cost to various endpoints. An "ALTO client," typically tied to a user agent attempting to obtain a resource, queries the ALTO server over HTTP to obtain the optimal location from which to retrieve the resource. History Starting around 2005, the widespread use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent was a serious concern to many network operators, as the massive amounts of network traffic caused by these applications had a significant impact on traffic engineering and revenues. Some network operators tried to throttle this tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ALTO (interbank Network)
ALTO is an interbank network in Indonesia. It was founded in August 1993. History In 2007, ALTO expanded its business to Money transmitter, money transfer operations. In 2009, ALTO developed Mobile Air Time Top Up for all telecommunication providers in Indonesia. In November 2013, ALTO made a joint venture with Seven Bank, a Japanese ATM network, named PT. ATM. The goal is to developing ATM business in Indonesia. References * (IndonesianCBI Siapkan Sertifikasi Kartu ATM Debet Berbasis Chip {{DEFAULTSORT:Alto Financial services companies of Indonesia Interbank networks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xerox Alto
The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in the 1970s. It is considered one of the first workstations or personal computers, and its development pioneered many aspects of modern computing. It features a graphical user interface (GUI), a mouse, Ethernet networking, and the ability to run multiple applications simultaneously. It is one of the first computers to use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) text editor and has a bit-mapped display. The Alto did not succeed commercially, but it had a significant influence on the development of future computer systems. The Alto was designed for an operating system based on a GUI, later using the desktop metaphor. The first machines were introduced on March 1, 1973, and in limited production starting one decade before Xerox's designs inspired Apple to release the first mass-market GUI computers. The Alto is contained in a relatively small cabinet and uses a custom central processing unit ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maruti Suzuki Alto
The Maruti Suzuki Alto is a city car manufactured and marketed by Suzuki through its subsidiary Maruti Suzuki primarily for the Indian market since 2000. The first-generation model was essentially the Indian version of the Suzuki Alto#HA12, fifth-generation Suzuki Alto kei car (with larger engine options). The second generation was made as a standalone model, which was built on the same platform as the first generation. The third-generation model is built on the same underpinnings as the Suzuki S-Presso, S-Presso. Since 2006, the Alto has been India's best-selling car and crossed the 1 million production figure in February 2008 becoming the third Maruti model to cross the million mark in India after Maruti 800 and Maruti Omni and fourth overall joining Hyundai Santro. As of 2024, the Alto is the only one car in India has ever sold over 5 million units. __TOC__ First generation (RF; 2000) The first generation was launched to the local Indian market on 27 September 2000 alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzuki Alto
The is a kei car produced by Suzuki since 1979. The model, currently in its ninth generation, was first introduced in 1979 and has been built in many countries worldwide. The Alto originated as a commercial vehicle derivative of the Fronte, but over time the Alto nameplate gained in popularity and by 1988 it replaced the Fronte name completely. The Alto badge has often been used on different cars in Japan and in export markets, where it is considered a city car. Nameplate history In Japan, the Alto badge was originally meant to be for the commercial use version of the Fronte passenger car. The word "alto" is a musical term. When introduced, the Alto was only available as a three-door "light van" and with bare-bones equipment. However, Suzuki generally did not use the "Fronte" badge in export, usually calling all versions "Alto" abroad. Most early export Altos were thus technically speaking rebadged Suzuki Frontes. These were exported with changes such as enlarged engines, so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
