Usually means: Two beats per measure, fast.
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  1. alla breve: Merriam-Webster
  2. alla breve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alla breve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alla breve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alla breve: Vocabulary.com
  6. alla breve: Wordnik
  7. alla breve: Wiktionary
  8. alla breve: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Alla breve, alla breve: Dictionary.com
  10. Alla breve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Alla breve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. alla breve: Rhymezone
  13. Alla breve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. alla breve: FreeDictionary.org
  15. alla breve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. alla breve: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. alla breve: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alla breve: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (alla breve)

noun:  (music) A time signature for which the half note is the beat and there are two beats per measure.
adverb:  (music) According to the time signature for which the half note is the beat and there are two beats per measure.

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