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With charm.
Printed above the staff or over the voice, usually at the start of a phrase. It describes a manner and lasts until the next character marking.
It asks for grace and appeal: light, smiling delivery with gentle rubato and elegant shaping, never heavy. It suits songs, salon pieces and dance-like music in the French manner. Boulanger follows it two bars later with naïvement, a fine distinction between charm and simplicity. Give tempo and dynamic separately; avec charme concerns manner alone.
Boulanger, Clairières dans le ciel, “Deux ancolies”, voice, m. 7: “avec charme”; “naïvement” follows at m. 9, and the song opens “Assez vite, souplement”.
Avec charme is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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