Quick Links This Day in Music History Music Education @ DataDragon.com Music Education Forums Maintain Your Forum Information Bernadette Peters - Broadway's Best Sudoku (take a break for a puzzle!) Topic: D.C. al Coda From the Music Questions forum. Post a reply or begin a new topic. View other threads or jump to a different forum. Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web datadragon.com Author Topic:   D.C. al Coda Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 205.188.208.x posted: 5/22/2003 at 9:19:34 AM ET Whats a D.C. al Coda Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 205.188.208.x posted: 6/1/2003 at 9:37:03 AM ET A D.C. al Coda is go to the begining play to the coda-Oval with a cross in it- the skip to the second coda.A D.S. al Coda is the same only you go back to S sign-S with a line thru and to dots onthe side. Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 64.40.61.x posted: 6/23/2003 at 6:00:45 PM ET D.C al coda is you go to D.C al coda and you jump to the front and play until to coda and jump to coda and play to the end maintube Registered User Registered: 5/26/2004 posted: 6/2/2004 at 10:08:58 PM ET Da Capo al Coda Go back to the beginning and play or sing till you get to Coda Sign(circle with a cross in it) and jump to the Coda at the bottom. choir_dir Registered User Registered: 7/28/2004 posted: 7/29/2004 at 12:12:35 AM ET Da Capo- means "from the beginning." al is actually a contraction of a+el (like Spanish, although the term is Italian...both are Latin derivatives) which means "to the." Capo means "tail" which is the ending section of a piece. So, you play "from the beginning" skipping "to the coda." Tempo_Tay Registered User Registered: 2/24/2005 posted: 2/24/2005 at 7:12:08 PM ET Piano is my Forte. maintube Registered User Registered: 5/26/2004 posted: 2/25/2005 at 1:13:45 PM ET Coda means tail, capo means head Anonymous Anonymous Poster From Internet Network: 24.148.57.x posted: 9/1/2005 at 1:46:24 AM ET actually, dc is derived from the latin 'dee cee' which means, 'to poop' and al coda is just the guy that made up the definition of dc, so there you have it: to poop Al Coda. How do you think he wuold like his legacy now?! Do you think this topic is inappropriate? Vote it down. After a thread receives a certain amount of negative votes it will be automatically locked. Please contact us with any concerns you might have.

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