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Sweet, soft, gentle — the French equivalent of dolce.
French composers use doux where Italians would write dolce. It implies tenderness and softness, often with a sensuous quality specific to French music.
Debussy's "Clair de lune" — marked "très doux" (very sweet), the opening has the delicacy of moonlight.
Doux 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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