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Moving, animated. Implies moderate-to-fast tempo with forward momentum.
Bewegt suggests emotional as well as physical movement — the music should feel alive and propulsive. Common in Mahler, who uses it with modifiers: Etwas bewegt (somewhat animated), Sehr bewegt (very animated).
Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, "Von der Jugend" — marked Behaglich heiter (comfortably cheerful) with bewegt sections.
Bewegt is one of 228 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary, where every definition is written around how composers actually use the word.
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