alla breve


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alla breve /ˌalə ˈbreɪvi, ˈbrɛveɪ/
noun Music a time signature indicating two or four minim beats in a bar.
– origin Ital., lit. ‘according to the breve’.
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