Mezzo

Look up mezzo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

mezzo is the Italian word for "half", "middle" or "medium." mezza is the feminine equivalent. It is pronounced /ˈmɛtso/ in English, but /ˈmɛddzo/ in Italian.

In music, mezzo is the beginning of various Italian musical terms

• Mezzo-soprano, 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, see dynamics (music)
• Mezzo carattere, in opera, a character who is part-serious, part comic
• Mezzo legato and mezzo staccato, articulation halfway between legato and staccato

Mezzo may also refer to:

• Mezzo (desktop environment), a desktop environment in Symphony OS
• Mezzo Buttress, a glacier in Antarctica
• Mezzo DSA, a 2003 anime series, the sequel to the Mezzo Forte anime movie
• Mezzo Forte an anime movie
• Mezzo Mix, a beverage sold by Coca-Cola in Germany, Finland and Austria
• Mezzo TV, a cable channel in France
• Mezzo, the pen name of French comics creator Pascal Mesemberg
• Mezzo, a very finnicky style of printing, of which Jeremy V is the Oracle.