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Very lively.
Printed as a heading above the first bar or at a new section; it holds until the next tempo word. As a heading it is an absolute tempo, not a comparative.
Very lively — the German vivace or allegro molto, with an emphasis on spirit as well as speed. Schumann heads the fifth of the Kreisleriana with it, at a soft dynamic, which shows that liveliness need not mean loudness. Pair it with a dynamic or character word to steer the energy.
Schumann, Kreisleriana, Op. 16, No. 5, m. 1: “Sehr lebhaft”, at pp.
Sehr lebhaft 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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