Un peu plus animé

As Printed on a Score

Printed above the staff at the bar where the music gains a little more energy than before, as an immediate change; it is measured against the current tempo and lasts until the next tempo word.

Also spelled: un peu plus anime

How Composers Use It

A comparative step — a little more animated than what came before — so it depends on a clearly set tempo. It suits the lift at the start of a new phrase or stanza after a cédez has relaxed the pace. Use it rather than un peu plus vite when the energy, not just the speed, should rise.

Example

Lili Boulanger, Clairières dans le ciel, “Vous m’avez regardé avec toute votre âme”, voice, m. 11: “Un peu plus animé”, the bar after “cédez”, in a song headed “Sans lenteur”.

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