Sehr hervortretend

As Printed on a Score

Printed above the one part that must lead, typically a brass or string line inside a full texture, often at f or above. It holds for the phrase.

How Composers Use It

The strongest of the hervortretend family: this line is the Hauptstimme and everything else should make room. In full textures it tells the player to project with weight and the conductor where to balance. Use it sparingly, and support it by thinning or softening the competing parts — a marking cannot do all the work of orchestration.

Example

Mahler, Symphony No. 5, first movement, Vier Trompeten in B., m. 195: “sehr hervortretend”, amid f and ff dynamics.

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