Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/All segno

All segno, or AL SEG. (I.) To the mark or sign. This expression is usually accompanied with this character, $, and signifies that the performer is to return to a 'similar mark in the composition, and end with the first part of the strain, or a similar character in the course of the movement, and play or sing from that place to the word FINE, (end,) or the mark � over a double bar.