Un peu accentué

As Printed on a Score

Printed above or beside the line it concerns, often with a hand indication (m.d., m.g.) in piano music, and sometimes with light accents on the notes. It applies to that line for the passage, until another articulation word takes over.

Also spelled: un peu accentue

How Composers Use It

It asks for gentle emphasis: the notes of a line given a little more weight than the surrounding texture, without the hard attack of an accent mark. Use it to bring out an inner voice or a melody in one hand at a soft dynamic, as Boulanger does after a ppp. It is milder than en dehors, which asks for the line to stand right out.

Example

Boulanger, Clairières dans le ciel, “Nous nous aimerons tant”, piano, m. 30: “un peu accentué”, with “m.d.” in the same bar, following a ppp at m. 28.

Related Terms