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With. The most common prefix in Italian musical directions: con sordino, con fuoco, con brio, con anima, con moto.
Con adds a quality to a tempo or expression marking. Allegro con brio = fast with spirit. Adagio con moto = slow with motion. Con sordino = with mute. It is the workhorse connector in musical Italian.
Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, first movement: Allegro con brio — fast with spirit.
Con 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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