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Mezzo is the Italian word for "half", "middle" or "medium". It may refer to:


Music

* Mezzo-soprano or mezzo, a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices *Mezzo forte ("medium-loud") and mezzo piano ("medium-quiet"), musical terms for dynamics *
Mezzo staccato Portato (; Italian past participle of ''portare'', "to carry"), also mezzo-staccato, French notes portées, in music denotes a smooth, pulsing articulation and is often notated by adding dots under slur markings. Portato is also known as art ...
, an articulation halfway between legato and staccato


Other uses

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Mezzo (artist) Pascal Mesenburg, pen name Mezzo, is a French cartoonist born in Drancy, France in 1960. Biography Very early, he is appealed by the 1960-1970 rock sleeves and the American underground scene (Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, etc.) ...
(born 1960), a French cartoonist *
Mezzo Buttress Mezzo Buttress () is a rocky buttress at the head of Barilari Bay just east of Lawrie Glacier, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37, and was so named by the ...
, a glacier in Antarctica *''
Mezzo DSA ''Mezzo DSA'' is a 13-episode anime series created by Yasuomi Umetsu and the first not to be licensed by Anime Works, but instead licensed by ADV Films. It is a follow up to the 2001 OVA ''Mezzo Forte''. Synopsis Mikura, Kurokawa, and Harad ...
'', a 2003 anime series, the sequel to the ''Mezzo Forte'' anime movie *''
Mezzo Forte is a 2000 original video animation (OVA) directed by Yasuomi Umetsu, but in the United States these OVAs are edited into an anime movie and released it on DVD on the same year. The OVA, which concerns a young woman, Mikura Suzuki, and her ...
'', an anime movie *
Mezzo Mix Mezzo Mix (official notation: mezzo mix) is a product of The Coca-Cola Company, first introduced in Germany in 1973. It is a mixture of orange soda and cola, a beverage popular in German-speaking countries, commonly known there as spezi, the gen ...
, a beverage sold by Coca-Cola in Germany, Finland and Austria *
Mezzo TV Mezzo is a French television channel devoted to classical music (including opera and ballet), jazz and world music. It was formed in 1992 and was called France Supervision until 1998. In 2010 it added a sister channel, Mezzo Live HD. In J ...
, a television channel in France *Mezzo, a common name in the 19th century for the island of
Lopud Lopud () is a small island off the coast of Dalmatia, southern Croatia. Lopud is economically the most developed of the Elaphiti Islands, and can be reached by boat from Dubrovnik, Trsteno, Orašac and Zaton. The island is famous for its sand ...
, Croatia


See also

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Mezzo soprano (disambiguation) A mezzo soprano or mezzo (English: /ˈmɛtsoʊ/; Italian: �mɛddzo soˈpraːno meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. Mezzo soprano may also r ...
* Mezza, the feminine equivalent of ''Mezzo'' *
Mezzanine A mezzanine (; or in Italian, a ''mezzanino'') is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped ...
, an intermediate ("halfway") floor in a building *
Mezzoforte (band) Mezzoforte is an instrumental jazz-funk fusion band from Iceland, formed in 1977.Larkin, Colin (1997) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music'', Virgin Books, , p. 321 They signed a record deal with Icelandic label Steinar. Their biggest h ...
, an Icelandic band {{disambiguation, hn Italian words and phrases