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More; the comparative marker in directions that ask for an increase.
Combines with another word inside a direction: immer mehr nachlassend, noch mehr zurückhaltend, mehr gezogen, nicht mehr schleppen. With nicht it means “no longer”, cancelling an earlier habit from that point on; otherwise it intensifies a process already under way and lasts until the next change.
Mehr makes a comparative where German has no ready-made form (mehr gezogen) and stacks onto a process (immer mehr, more and more). Watch the double meaning: nicht mehr schleppen means stop dragging from here on, not “do not drag more”. It suits fine-tuning a passage already in motion; for a fresh instruction, a plain comparative (langsamer, leiser) reads faster.
Wolf, Eichendorff-Lieder, “Waldmädchen”, piano, m. 119: “noch mehr zurückhaltend”, ten bars after “immer zurückhaltend”, in a song headed “Äusserst rasch und feurig”.
Mehr 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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