A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Aevia

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1505265A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — AeviaGeorge GroveWilliam Smyth Rockstro

AEVIA (Aeuia or Ævia). A technical word formed from the vowels of Alleluia; and used, in Mediæval Office Books, as an abbreviation, in the same manner as Evovae—which see.

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In Venetian and other Italian Office-Books of the 16th century, we sometimes find Hal'a, or Hal'ah, substituted for Aevia.

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