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ATTACCA, i.e. 'begin' (Ital.), when placed at the end of a movement as the Scherzo of Beethoven's C minor Symphony, or all the three first movements of Mendelssohn's Scotch ditto—signifies that no pause is to be made, but that the next movement is to be attacked at once.
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