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How is avec vibrato played?
Use deliberate vibrato instead of a locally straight tone, coordinating its speed, width, onset and release with the instrument, register, dynamic, style and phrase. On strings this commonly involves left-hand pitch oscillation; winds and voice use their own coordinated mechanisms. The marking can signal a return after a non-vibrato passage and may add warmth or movement, but it does not prescribe one universal vibrato or automatically change dynamics. It is the French counterpart of con vibrato and the local opposite of sans vibrato.
How does avec vibrato sound?
The listener hears a warmer, more singing tone with the living shimmer that vibrato gives a sustained note.
In context
Research describes vibrato through interacting pitch, amplitude, spectral and temporal variations rather than one fixed oscillation. A score legend directly expands Vib. as avec vibrato, but no candidate received three independent direct expansions for this exact French phrase; it is therefore written in full. In historically informed and modern colour contexts the phrase may reintroduce vibrato after straight tone, but that function depends on the local score and style.
Equivalent terms
- EN with vibrato
- DA med vibrato