Attacca - Musical Definition

Attacca - The term is most frequently used to indicate that the subsequent movement of a work should follow without a break.


Musical examples where the term 'Attacca'   is used:

An example of this would be in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, where the third and fourth movements are joined without a break. This occurs at 24m 30s in the following extract.






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