Re: stephz (was: no subject)

[David Raleigh Arnold]

Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu wrote:
> 
> David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> > [...snip...]
> >
> > Also, why al fine and not alla fine?  I've seen alla fine only
> > once and I wondered about that.
> 
> Both "al fine" e "alla fine" are correct italian. In the every day
> language you say "Alla fine" (for example: "Alla fine della giornata" =
> "At the end of the day"), but in the musical language you say
> "Da capo al fine". As most of the musical terms, it's old fashoned: in
> the common language "fine" means something like "aim".
> 
> Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.
> 
Thank you so much.  Can you stand another question?  Is musical,
so to speak, Italian based on some particular dialect like
Milanese or something else other than la lingua Fiorentina?

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