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With soul, with feeling — deeply expressive.
Con anima asks for music played from the heart. It implies emotional depth without specifying exactly what emotion. Use it when you want performers to invest the passage with genuine feeling.
Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 ("Pathétique"), first movement second theme — marked con anima, the yearning D major melody is one of his most emotional.
Con anima 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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