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Tender, delicate — with extreme gentleness.
Zart asks for the most delicate touch possible. Mahler uses it for his most fragile, vulnerable passages — music that seems like it could dissolve at any moment.
Mahler's Symphony No. 4, fourth movement — the "zart" vocal passages depict the innocent joys of heaven.
Zart is one of 228 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary, where every definition is written around how composers actually use the word.
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