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On the pass after a D.C. or D.S., jump from this mark to the Coda (marked with the coda sign); it is ignored the first time through.
Printed above the staff with the coda sign at the point of departure, usually a bar line; it is observed only after a D.C. or D.S. return, not on the first pass. The coda itself starts at a matching sign, usually labelled Coda.
A space-saving device for repeated material in popular, dance and teaching music. Make the route unambiguous: one To Coda, one coda sign, and a D.S. or D.C. instruction that says al Coda. In longer or concert works, writing the music out is often clearer than a chain of jumps.
To Coda 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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