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How is come un’eco played?
The performer plays the marked material as an echo of a preceding phrase, usually softer and sometimes at a different octave, so it reads as a reflection rather than a fresh statement. The eco effect is a long-standing device in which a group of notes is repeated more quietly to imitate a real echo, and come un'eco asks the player to lean into that quality with a hushed, slightly receding tone. It pairs naturally with distance markings such as lontano, and in orchestral practice echo effects are sometimes realized by an offstage instrument answering one onstage. The point is the sense of a returning, diminished repetition.
How does come un’eco sound?
A softer restatement that the listener hears as a fading reflection of the phrase just played.
In context
The glossary defines eco (Italian for 'echo') as 'an effect in which a group of notes is repeated, usually more softly, and perhaps at a different octave, to create an echo effect.' In the orchestra this is sometimes staged literally; for instance an offstage oboe answers the cor anglais as its echo in the third movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.