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Very brisk.
Printed as a heading above the first bar or at a new section; it holds until the next tempo word, and may be pushed further by Noch schneller. It is an absolute tempo, not a comparative.
A very quick tempo with a sense of rush and lightness; Schumann heads the seventh of the Kreisleriana with it. Use it for music that should feel airborne rather than heavy, and check that the fastest figuration speaks at the speed you mean. Sehr schnell is the more neutral alternative.
Schumann, Kreisleriana, Op. 16, No. 7, m. 1: “Sehr rasch”, at f.
Sehr rasch 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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