Forte or Forté may refer to:

Music

Forte (music) In music, the dynamics of a piece is the variation in loudness between notes or phrases. Dynamics are indicated by specific musical notation, often in some detail. However, dynamics markings still require interpretation by the performer dependi ...

, a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong" *

Forte number In musical set theory, a Forte number is the pair of numbers Allen Forte assigned to the prime form of each pitch class set of three or more members in ''The Structure of Atonal Music'' (1973, ). The first number indicates the number of pitch c ...

, an ordering given to every pitch class set *

Forte (notation program) Forte is a music notation program developed by the German company ''Lugert Verlag'', located in Handorf. Its name is derived from the dynamic marking of ''forte''. The program is available in both German and English. History The Lugert publishi ...

, a suite of musical score notation programs *

Forte (vocal group) Forte (; styled as FORTE) is a classical crossover– operatic pop trio comprising tenors Josh Page, Sean Panikkar and Hana Ryu. Forte was created specifically for season eight of ''America's Got Talent'' (''AGT'') in 2013. After weeks of prep ...

, a classical crossover singing trio

Computing

Forte 4GL Forté 4GL was a proprietary application server that was developed by Forté Software and used for developing scalable, highly available, enterprise applications. History Forté 4GL was created as an integrated solution for developing and managing ...

, a proprietary application server *

Forté Agent Forté Agent is an email and Usenet news client used on the Windows operating system. Agent was conceived, designed and developed by Mark Sidell and the team at Forté Internet Software in 1994 to address the need for an online/offline newsread ...

, an email and news client used on the Windows operating system *

Forte TeamWare Sun WorkShop TeamWare (later Forte TeamWare, then Forte Code Management Software) is a distributed source code revision control system made by Sun Microsystems. It was first announced in November 1992 as SPARCworks/TeamWare and ProWorks/TeamWare and ...

, a family of development environments from Sun Microsystems *

NetBeans IDE NetBeans is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java. NetBeans allows applications to be developed from a set of modular software components called ''modules''. NetBeans runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and Solaris. In addition to Java ...

, formerly Forté for Java

Companies

* Forté Internet Software, makers of Forté Agent * Forte Land, a large-scale real estate company in Shanghai, China *

Forte Group Forte Group plc was a British hotel and restaurant company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Granada in 1996. Its head office was in the London Borough of Camden. ...

, a former British hotel company *

Forte Design Systems Forte Design Systems, Inc. was a San Jose, CA, based provider of high-level synthesis (HLS) software products, also known as electronic system-level (ESL) synthesis. Forte's main product was Cynthesizer. On February 14, 2014, Forte was acquired b ...

, a high level synthesis software company in San Jose, California *

Trust House Forte Forte Group plc was a British hotel and restaurant company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Granada in 1996. Its head office was in the London Borough of Camden. ...

, a British hotel and catering firm

Fictional characters

* Forte Stollen, a character from the Galaxy Angel anime * Bass (''Mega Man''), a character in ''Mega Man'' known as "Forte" in Japanese *

Bass.EXE Since the debut of the first ''Mega Man'' video game in 1987, numerous characters have been introduced into the series. Overview Key: = Does Not Appear List indicator(s) * A dark grey cell indicates that the character was not in the prope ...

, a character from the ''MegaMan NT Warrior'' series known as "Forte" in Japanese *Forte, a character in '' Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas''

Other uses

Forte (surname) Forte is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Allen Forte (1926–2014), American music theorist and musicologist *Anthony Forté or Rappin' 4-Tay (born 1968), rapper *Bruno Forte (born 1949), Italian theologian and ecclesiastic *Ch ...

8780 Forte __NOTOC__ Year 878 ( DCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events By place Britain * January 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1066 – Following the death of ...

, a main-belt minor planet *

FORTE Forte or Forté may refer to: Music *Forte (music), a musical dynamic meaning "loudly" or "strong" * Forte number, an ordering given to every pitch class set * Forte (notation program), a suite of musical score notation programs * Forte (vocal ...

, the Fast On-orbit Rapid Recording of Transient Events satellite * ''Forte''-class frigate, two French Navy warships ** French frigate ''Forte'' (1794), in service 1794–1801 *

Forte (fencing) In fencing, forte (from the Romance root meaning "strong") is "the strong part" of the blade—the one-third closest to the hilt. The "strength" refers to the control established over the opponent's weapon upon contact of one's forte with the op ...

, a fencing term for the "strong" part of the blade *

Forte (typeface) Forte is a script typeface designed by Austrian commercial artist Carl Reissberger on May 8, 1962, for the Monotype Corporation. It started in Windows Vista and ended in 8.1. Design The idea for the script face came from the study of plants, indiv ...

, by the Monotype Corporation included in various editions of Microsoft Office *

Forte (horse) Forte (foaled February 3, 2020) is a multiple Grade I winning American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Grade I Hopeful Stakes, Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland and Breeders' Cup Juvenile which was held at Keeneland as a two-year-old. Back ...

, an American thoroughbred race horse *

Kia Forte The Kia Forte, known as the K3 in South Korea, the Forte K3 or Shuma in China and Cerato in South America, Australia, New Zealand and Russia, is a compact car manufactured by South Korean automaker Kia since mid-2008, replacing the Kia Spectra. ...

, a mid-size sedan car

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