adv. Music (Abbr. DC)
From the beginning. Used as a direction to repeat a passage.
[Italian : da, from + capo, head.]
Dictionary:
da ca·po (dä kä'pō)
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[Italian : da, from + capo, head.]
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‘From the head’: an instruction, often abbreviated ‘D.C.’, placed at the end of a piece to indicate a return to the beginning. The word ‘fine’ (end) or a pause sign normally marks the end of the return. The instruction was regularly placed after the B section in the ternary (ABA) arias in the Baroque period and minuets in the Classical period to avoid having to write out the first section twice.
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Da Capo is a musical term in Italian, meaning from the beginning (literally from the head). It is often abbreviated D.C.. It is a composer or publisher's directive to repeat the previous part of music. In small pieces this might be the same thing as a repeat, but in larger works D.C. might occur after one or more repeats of small sections, indicating a return to the very beginning. The resulting structure of the piece is generally in ternary form. Sometimes the composer describes the part to be repeated, for example: Menuet da capo. In opera, where an aria of this structure is called a da capo aria, the repeated section is often adorned with grace notes.
Variations of the direction are:
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