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Very lively and pressing forward.
Printed as a heading above the first bar of the voice or top staff; it holds until the next tempo word. Drängend in a heading describes a constant forward pressure rather than a gradual accelerando.
Very lively and pushing forward — a heading for music in a state of excitement, as in Strauss’s “Cäcilie” and Wolf’s “Liebesglück”. The pressing should come from the accompaniment’s drive and the phrasing, not from a tempo that keeps rising. Leave room for the voice to sing through it.
Strauss, Cäcilie, Op. 27, No. 2, voice, m. 1: “Sehr lebhaft und drängend” heads the song.
Sehr lebhaft und drängend 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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