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Softer, more gentle.
A comparative, printed over a phrase where the tone should soften; in bilingual editions the Italian “più tenero” stands beside it. It holds until the next character word.
Softer, gentler — a change of tone and touch more than of volume, though it implies easing the dynamic. Use it after a passionate passage to turn the line tender without writing out a full dynamic plan; add the dynamic if you need a specific level.
Cornelius, 3 Lieder, Op. 4, “In Lust und Schmerzen”, voice, m. 49: “weicher” with “più tenero” beside it, in a song headed “Appassionato con moto”.
Weicher 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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