cappella

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | 237 words | Copyright

cappella. (It.) . Chapel. a cappella or alla cappella (applied to choral mus.) meaning in church style, i.e. unaccompanied (like 16th-cent. and other church mus.). A rarer sense of these expressions makes them synonymous with alla breve.

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