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For the close: heads a closing section or coda (Schumann’s Arabeske); in bis zum Schluss it means ‘until the end’.
As a heading, printed above the staff where a closing section or coda begins (Schumann: “Zum Schluß”, with a new tempo); inside a phrase, “bis zum Schluß” extends an instruction to the end of the piece.
Also spelled: Zum Schluss
For the close: it marks the coda as a distinct section, often with a new tempo or mood. Use it to signal a reflective or summarising ending; bis zum Schluß is a scope instruction, not a heading, and tells the performer to keep something unchanged to the last bar.
Schumann, Arabeske in C major, Op. 18, m. 216: “Zum Schluß” with “Langsamer” and p, two bars after a ritard.
Zum Schluß 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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