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Animated, brought to life.
Printed above the staff at the point where the music should quicken — Wagner sets it in parentheses over the voice, “(belebt)”. It stands until another tempo word or a return (Wieder ruhiger, Tempo I) appears.
A participle — ‘brought to life’ — so it tends to read as a change of energy from what came before rather than a fresh tempo, close to animato. In parentheses it marks a passing livening inside the phrase, not a new section. For an explicitly comparative step write belebter; for an absolute heading, Lebhaft is the plainer choice.
Wagner, Wesendonck-Lieder, “Träume”, voice, m. 41: “(belebt)” follows a p, in a song headed “Sehr mässig bewegt, aber nie schleppend”.
Belebt 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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