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Go straight on: continue into the next movement or song without a break. The French equivalent of attacca.
Printed at the end of a movement or song, over or just after the final barline, and often naming the destination — Enchaînez avec le No. 2. It overrides the pause a double bar would otherwise imply: the next piece begins as soon as the last sound is released. The unaccented spelling enchainez also appears.
Also spelled: enchainez, enchaîner
Use it when the silence between two pieces would break a thought the music is still carrying; Lili Boulanger links the first two songs of Clairières dans le ciel this way. It also tells the audience not to applaud. Make sure the join is playable: a page turn, a retuning or a mute change needs a held note or a few rests at the start of the next piece.
Lili Boulanger, Clairières dans le ciel, “Elle était descendue au bas de la prairie”, piano, m. 23: “Enchainez avec le No. 2” closes the first song, sending the performers straight into the second.
Enchaînez is one of 1755 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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