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Attacca

Attacca \At*tac"ca\ [It., fr. attaccare to tie, bind. See Attach.] (Mus.) Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

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attacca

adv. (context music English) Without any break between the current movement and the next movement of the work.

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A lot of the variations enter attacca, without pause, the last notes of one spilling into the first notes of the next, anxious to hear how they might sound all at once, on top of one another.

Però, la nostra sventurata vittima dev'es­sere stata attaccata da un numero davvero considerevole di ve­dove.