Alla breve [alla ˈbrɛːve] – also known as cut time or cut common time – is a musical meter notated by the time signature symbol (a C with a vertical line...

bar rest for time signature 4 2 only. Alla breve, the time signature 2 2, takes its name from the note value breve. In the mensural notation of the Renaissance...

unaccompanied vocal music. The term is also used, rarely, as a synonym for alla breve. A cappella could be as old as humanity itself; research suggests that...

of the keyboard, playing the fast passages. Variatio 6. a 1 Clav. Canone alla Seconda Performed by Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka on piano The sixth variation...

imperfect time. The symbol is sometimes used in place of 2 2 and is called alla breve or, colloquially, cut time or cut common time. These symbols derive from...

battalion in the United States Marine Corps 2 2, a time signature in music Alla breve a musical meter notated by , the equivalent of 2 2 February 2, a date...

"imperfect" duple meter in fourteenth-century mensural time signatures. Alla breve / cut time This symbol represents 2 2 time—two beats per measure with...

composed in the key of B-flat major and is set in a 2 2 time signature (alla breve) with a tempo of 80 beats per minute. Nicks has said that she wrote the...

single measure of 4/4 emulates 2/2. Half-time is not to be confused with alla breve or odd time. Though notes usually get the same value relative to the tempo...

the melody from the A section returns and ends the movement. F major, alla breve () The fourth movement is in an altered rondo form that can be described...

Ancora poco meno: Contento forse vivere (soprano) Allegro assai Allegro ― Alla breve: Con queste paroline (bass) Trio (Andante): Sento dire no' ncè pace (soprano...

common time Adagio in F♯ minor and 6 8 time Allegro assai in A major and alla breve, rondo form The first movement is in A major and is in sonata form. The...

Kyrie, Allegro moderato, B-flat major, 6/8 Gloria, Allegro, B-flat major, alla breve Qui tollis, Adagio, E-flat major, 3/4 Quoniam tu solus sanctus, Molto...

autograph score and in his personal catalog, Mozart notated the meter as alla breve. Allegro vivace assai The opening movement begins quietly with a march...

a brighter timbre than the C clarinet. At bar 80, there is one bar of alla breve, with descending crotchets in unison through the entire orchestra. Again...

impression of alla breve time rather than 2/4, almost as if Schubert notated it 2/4 to avoid the frequent syncopations (in the equivalent alla breve, the music...

modern alla breve bar. Older music might be diminished by a factor of 4 (rendering semibreves as crotchets) or sometimes 8 (rendering breves as crotchets)...

changing the pitch, is called time-stretching.[citation needed] A capriccio Alla breve As Slow as Possible Bell pattern Half-time (music) Multitemporal music...

originally written, the piece had two trios, the first in B major, andante in alla breve time, and the second in A♭ major, andantino in 2 4. Schubert crossed out...

(2nd) Four-part chorus (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) in F♯ minor, marked alla breve, and (in the 1748–50 score) "stromenti in unisono". Autograph time signature...

Molto meno mosso, Allegro vivace No. 29 Scène finale: Andante, Allegro, Alla breve, Moderato e maestoso, Moderato The opening credits for the first sound...

of BWV 538 is very similar to the fugue of BWV 540. They both imply an alla breve time signature; they both use subjects with semibreves and syncopated...

Grave. The exposition, marked Allegro di molto con brio, is in 2 2 time (alla breve) in the home key of C minor and features three themes. Theme 1 features...

the time, see rubato alla breve In cut-time; two beats per measure or the equivalent thereof alla marcia In the style of a march alla polacca In the style...

narration of the annunciation to the shepherds. The music is in F major, alla breve-time, and marked "Brightly". It begins with two measures of arpeggios...

second violin, cello and first violin in that order. The movement is in alla breve time and is almost a perpetuum mobile in quavers. The fugue is semi-rigorous...

time Cum sancto Spiritu, Moderato, B-flat major, alla breve Credo, Moderato, E-flat major, alla breve Et incarnatus est, Andante, A-flat major, 12/8 Et...

D major, common time (soli SATB) Credo, Allegro con spirito, D major, alla breve Et incarnatus est, Largo, G major, 3/4 (soli SATB) Et resurrexit, Vivace...

External audio Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn I. Allegro ma non tanto II. Intermezzo (Adagio) III. Finale (Alla breve)...

Moderato alla breve (about 9 minutes) Larghetto concertante (about 6 minutes) Allegretto (about 5 minutes) Largo; Tempo giusto, alla breve (about 7 minutes)...