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Prominently, brought out — an instruction to project a line above the surrounding texture.
En dehors tells a performer to bring their line to the foreground. Use it when a melody or countermelody might otherwise be buried in the texture. It is especially important in orchestral writing where inner voices carry important thematic material.
Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloé" — en dehors markings guide which instrument should project at any given moment in the dense orchestral texture.
En dehors 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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