A spelling nit

Isn't *a cap(p)ella correctly spelled with two "p"s?

- Fred

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Rick Sanford wrote:
> We have to decide which of the two Italian words
> we're dealing with
> capel "head" like "capellini - angel hair pasta
> (or, "head" - voice)
>
> cappell "church" or "chapel" - like - nothing
> or "hat", "cap"

The latter. "A cappella" or "alla cappella" literally meant "in the
style of the church", since accompanying instruments were long banned in
church.

I have consulted six different music dictionaries and they all use two
'p's, although two of them did give the single-'p' form as a rarer
variant.

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