Scala
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- SCALAScalaScala may refer to:* SCALA, the Student Chapter of the American Library Association* FF Scala and FF Scala Sans, typefaces by Dutch typeface designer Martin Majoor* Scala Sancta or Holy Stairs, a staircase in Rome, Italy...
, the Student Chapter of the American Library Association - FF ScalaFF ScalaFF Scala is an old style, humanist, serif typeface designed by Dutch typeface designer Martin Majoor in 1990 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The FF Scala font family was named for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan...
and FF Scala SansFF Scala SansFF Scala Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed in by Dutch designer Martin Majoor in 1993 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands...
, typefaces by Dutch typeface designer Martin Majoor - Scala Sancta or Holy Stairs, a staircase in Rome, Italy
- One of several fluid-filled cavities in the cochleaCochleaThe cochlea is the auditory portion of the inner ear. It is a spiral-shaped cavity in the bony labyrinth, making 2.5 turns around its axis, the modiolus....
- Scala (unit), a unit of areaAreaArea is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...
equal to 1600 yd2, used in Cyprus, 20th century
In music:
- Scala & Kolacny BrothersScala & Kolacny BrothersScala & Kolacny Brothers is a Belgian women's choir, conducted by Stijn Kolacny and arranged and accompanied by Steven Kolacny on the piano. Formed in 1996 and winning the Belgian 'Choir of the Year'-contest in 2000, they have made five studio albums, starting with On The Rocks in 2002.Most songs...
, a Belgian girls' choir - Former name of EscalaEscala (group)Escala is an electronic string quartet, from London, England who rose to fame when they performed on and reached the final of the second series of Britain's Got Talent on ITV1 in May 2008.- Background :...
, an electronic string quartet - La ScalaLa Scala (album)La Scala is a live solo piano album by American pianist Keith Jarrett which was released on the ECM label in 1997. It was recorded in concert on February 13, 1995 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milano, Italy.-Reception:...
, an album by Keith JarrettKeith JarrettKeith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as... - Scala, an album by This HeatThis HeatThis Heat were a British experimental music group formed in early 1976 in Camberwell, London by multi-instrumentalists Charles Bullen , Charles Hayward and Gareth Williams .This Heat were active in the ascendancy of British progressive rock and punk rock, but stood apart...
In computing:
- Scala, Inc, producer of multimedia computer software for video production, presentations and digital signage
- Scala (programming language), a functional/object-oriented programming language
- Scala (program)Scala (program)Scala is a freeware software application with versions supporting Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It allows users to create and archive musical scales, analyze and transform them with built-in theoretical tools, play them with an on-screen keyboard or from an external MIDI keyboard, and export them...
, a program for creating musical scales
Entertainment establishments:
- La ScalaLa ScalaLa Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...
, an opera house in Milan, Italy - Scala (club)Scala (club)Scala is a nightclub in London, England, near King's Cross railway station.-History:The Scala was originally built as a cinema to the designs of H Courtney Constantine, but construction was interrupted by the First World War and it spent some time being used to manufacture aircraft parts, and as a...
, a nightclub in London, UK - Scala TheatreScala TheatreThe Scala Theatre was a theatre in London, sited on Charlotte Street, off Tottenham Court Road, in the London Borough of Camden. The first theatre on the site opened in 1772, and the theatre was demolished in 1969, after being destroyed by fire...
, a theatre in London, UK
Places:
- Scala, Campania, a village on the Amalfi Coast in Italy
- Scala (Saxony), a part of German community KittlitzKittlitzKittlitz is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany....
People:
- Gia ScalaGia ScalaGia Scala was an English actress and model of Italian and Irish descent.-Early life:She was born Giovanna Scoglio in Liverpool, England, to an Sicilian father, Pietro Scoglio, and an Irish mother, Eileen Sullivan...
(1934–1972), an actress - Nevio Scala (born 1947), an Italian soccer coach
Snails:
- Scala (gastropod), a genus of marine snailSnailSnail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
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