释义 |
‖ a capella, a cappella [It. cappella chapel.] = alla capella; also see quots.
1876in Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms. 1901Daily News 3 Jan. 6/3 ‘The 100th Psalm’, which is written for eight voices—a capella style. 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 4/1 A cappella or a capella... This refers to the period up to and including the sixteenth century when church music was written for unaccompanied voices... Hence nowadays often used of choral music as a synonym for ‘unaccompanied’. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era iv. 36 A succession of delicate and refined a cappella composers, such as Mendelssohn and Brahms. |