Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Selah

in the Psalms. Mattheson, the musical critic, says the word is equivalent to da capo, and is a direction to the choir to repeat the psalm down to the part thus indicated.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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