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  • omaggio – homage, celebration
  • one-voice-per-part, or OVPP – the practice of using solo voices on each musical line or part in choral music.
  • ossia – or instead; i.e., according to some specified alternative way of performing a passage, which is marked with a footnote, additional small notes, or an additional staff
  • ostinato – obstinate, persistent; i.e., a short musical pattern that is repeated throughout an entire composition or portion of a composition
  • ottava – octave; e.g. ottava bassa: an octave lower