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Go on at once, without a pause, to the next movement.
Printed at the end of a movement or section, above the last bar or after the final barline, to say the next follows at once with no break; often the next movement is named (attacca subito l’Allegro). It applies to that join only.
Use it to bind sections or movements — an introduction straight into its Allegro, a slow movement into a finale — so no pause or applause intervenes. Subito sharpens attacca: no breath, no settling. Make sure the next movement’s first bar can be played without a page turn, retuning or a change of instrument.
Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (“Pathétique”), first movement, m. 10: “Attacca subito l’Allegro” — the Grave introduction runs straight into the Allegro.
Attacca subito is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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