Plus animé

As Printed on a Score

Printed above the staff at the bar where the music becomes more animated, as an immediate change; Plus animé encore marks a further step. It lasts until the next tempo word (Tempo I, au Mouvt).

Also spelled: plus anime

How Composers Use It

More animated: faster, but with the added sense of energy and life that animé carries, so it changes character as well as speed. It is the French più animato. Use it where the music should come alive — a quickening text, a rising line — and plus vite where only the pace changes. In “Parfois, je suis triste” Lili Boulanger raises it in two steps (plus animé, then plus animé encore) before returning to Tempo I.

Example

Lili Boulanger, Clairières dans le ciel, “Les lilas qui avaient fleuri”, voice and piano, m. 15: “Plus animé”, a bar after “plus intense”, in a song headed “Sans lenteur”.

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