Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/A battuta
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A battuta. (I.) In exact beat - like the pendulum of a clock, in true time. BY BEATING. An expression generally employed after a break in the time of any piece, by a recitative, or cantabile ad libitum ; to apprise the performer that the measure is to be resumed, and the time beat-en, as before.