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A muted forte: loud, but with a veiled, damped tone.
Printed at the start of a passage as a dynamic word, in place of or beside f, usually in the dynamic position below the staff. It holds until a new dynamic is given.
A muted forte: full in intensity and attack but veiled in volume — a forte held in check. Schoenberg uses it at the head of a fast song to set a strong but contained sound. Performers may read it differently, so consider supplementing it with an expressive word or a dynamic like mf.
Schoenberg, Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Op. 15, “Wenn ich heut nicht deinen Leib berühre”, piano, m. 1: “gedämpftes Forte”, in a song headed “Rasch”.
Gedämpftes Forte 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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