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Portuguese term or phrase:
Composição e Regência
English translation:
Composing and conducting
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Wendy Gosselin
Jan 19, 2006 15:57
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Composição e Regência
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This is the name of a class at music school and I'm not sure how to translate "regência": "Composition (or Composing) and...???"
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Beto Monteiro
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Amy Duncan (X)
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Portuguese term (edited):
Composi��o e Reg�ncia
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Composing and conducting
'Conductor' é o maestro (regente) e 'conducting' é regência.
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Comment: "Obrigada!"
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Portuguese term (edited):
Composi��o e Reg�ncia
Composition and Conducting
This is it...the orchestra conductor is always called the "regente".
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Note added at 8 hrs (2006-01-20 00:32:53 GMT)
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When it's a course, it's called "composition" -- not "composing."
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Note added at 8 hrs (2006-01-20 00:32:53 GMT)
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When it's a course, it's called "composition" -- not "composing."
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Claudio Mazotti
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Thanks, klausin
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tania nogueira
: composition está mais para redação do que para uma composição musical.
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Lamento, mas você está redondamente enganada...sei, porque sou compositora!
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Sormane Gomes
: Yes, composition, NOT composing...// Composing doesn't work...a course would never be called "composing" ...that is grammatically wrong...any native speaker would know that. Apropos, I have a degree in Music and play the violin.
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Thank you, Sormane! And yes, it's too bad that the asker chose the wrong answer, but....fazer o que?
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Deborah do Carmo
: must be composition, quite correct Amy - nice to see another native :)//no, I'm based in Algarve Portugal :)
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Thanks, Deborah! Do you live in Brazil?
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