alla breve

1. 1.

   a musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure

   Broadertime signature

Questions about alla breve

What does alla breve mean?

alla breve means "a musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure".

Is alla breve a common word?

alla breve is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.