Alla breve [alla ˈbrɛːve] – also known as cut time or cut common time – is a musical meter notated by the time signature symbol (a C with a vertical line through it), which is the equivalent of 22. The term is Italian for "on the breve", originally meaning that the beat was counted on the breve. Alla breve is a "simple-duple meter with a half-note pulse". The note denomination that represents one beat in is the minim or half-note. There are two of these per bar, so that the time signature 22 may be interpreted as "two minim beats per bar."