Erregt

As Printed on a Score

Printed above the staff as a character word, often in the comparative or with immer — “erregter”, “immer erregter” — to show excitement rising across a passage. It holds until a calmer word appears.

Also spelled: erregter

How Composers Use It

Excited, stirred — close to aufgeregt, with more sense of inner agitation. The comparative forms make it a direction of growth, often with an implied quickening; if you want a tempo change, say so as well. Wolf can follow it at once with zart, so the excitement is emotional rather than merely louder.

Example

Wolf, Mörike-Lieder, “Nimmersatte Liebe”, voice, m. 28: “immer erregter”, a bar after “zurückhaltend”, with “(zart)” in the same bar.

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