Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, begin! a direction to proceed with a succeeding movement immediately, without pause.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Mus.) Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb music Without any
break between the currentmovement and the next movement of the work.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fleming managed a convincing attacca downshift from the "éternellement lumineux" young bodies of "La maison" to an intoxicated, drill-sergeant bark for "Les deux guerriers."
Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Fleming managed a convincing attacca downshift from the "éternellement lumineux" young bodies of "La maison" to an intoxicated, drill-sergeant bark for "Les deux guerriers."
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Now: one, two, three, and — (attacca subito l'allegro).
Archive 2008-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Now: one, two, three, and — (attacca subito l'allegro).
Phantasie Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Quando un nemico invisibile li attacca, ricorreranno agli estremi rimedi per venirne a capo.
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At the end both of the first movement and of the allegretto the usual wait between the divisions of a sonata is omitted, Beethoven giving the direction "attacca subito il sequente," literally meaning
The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Gustav Kobb�� 1887
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Lætitia was, and could see her way to nothing but obeying the direction on her music, which was _attacca_.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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Masur takes far too long a pause between the third and fourth movements, ignoring Beethoven's attacca instructions completely.
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Quando la fazione avversaria sembra avere la meglio, uccidendo il compagno di Rouga arriva un misterioso salvatore: Jubei si fa notare per il disprezzo del pericolo, uno dei ninja assalitori lo attacca ma questi lo elimina facilmente.
Fulldls.com 2009
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Quello che attacca, che distrugge 400 villaggi, massacrando un gran numero di abitanti, che occupa le terre della Palestina per più di sessant'anni, non può essere una vittima, e quindi, non ha il diritto alla loro presunta "auto-difesa".
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