Definition of the Italian term nasardo in music:

  1. organ mutation stop of 2⅔ pitch on the manuals (used with an 8' stop) and 5⅓' pitch on the pedals (used with a 16' stop), sounding a twelfth (an octave and a fifth) above the note played (equivalent to "Nazard" in English, "Nasat" in German, and "Nasard" in French)
Language
Italian
Singular
nasardo
Plural
nasardi
Variant
nazardo

Italian musical terms related to nasardo: