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Passionately.
Printed above the staff or over a voice part, often at a climax and usually with a strong dynamic. It describes character for the passage until the next marking.
The English counterpart of con passione or appassionato: intense, ardent delivery with full tone and expressive rubato. English directions like this belong mostly to British and American scores and to editions for learners. Because it is open-ended, give the dynamic and say whether the tempo should press forward, and reserve it for real emotional peaks.
With passion 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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