A musical direction meaning 'still' or 'yet,' used to indicate that a passage should continue in the previous manner.
From Italian 'ancora' meaning 'still' or 'yet,' which comes from Latin roots related to continuation and persistence.
In sheet music, when you see 'ancora' scrawled in the margins, it's a composer telling you: 'Keep doing what you were doing'—it's Italian for 'not yet!'
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