alla breve in English

noun
1
a time signature indicating 2 or 4 half-note beats in a bar.
All the alla breve movements of the Mass really are played here alla breve.

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1. Alla Breve definition is - the sign marking a piece or passage to be played alla Breve; also : a passage so marked.

2. The 247-bar long piece starts out in C major, alla breve, with a tempo marking of Mehr langsam!

3. Three are marked alla breve, Ricercar pro Festis Natalitys is in common time and the F major ricercar is in 3/2.

4. The tempo of the Adagio introductions to Movements 1 and 4, and that of Movement 2, are scored alla breve, i.e. notably faster than in 1878.

5. Both represent two diverse aspects of Italian influence: the motoric rhythms and sequential passagework of the Toccata, and the traditional alla breve counterpoint of the Fugue, with its chromaticism, harmonic suspensions, and uninterrupted succession of subjects and answers.

6. Alla Breve, the time signature 2 2, takes its name from the note value Breve.In the mensural notation of the Renaissance, it was an alternative term for proportio dupla, which meant that the brevis was to be considered the unit of time (), instead of the usual semibrevis.The old symbol