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How is en élargissant played?
Broaden across the marked passage by making the pulse more spacious and allowing the tempo to relax progressively toward its contextual goal. The phrase can also invite a more open rhetorical shape, but it does not by itself prescribe louder dynamics. Unlike a local cédez or a held-back retenu state, en élargissant describes an unfolding change. Continue until 1er Mouvement, reprenez le mouvement, another tempo instruction or the end of the indicated span.
How does en élargissant sound?
The music seems to widen and gather space as it slows, an expansive broadening rather than a fade.
In context
En élargissant is built from French élargir, “to broaden or widen.” Larousse identifies it as the French equivalent of allargando and describes progressive broadening with slowing; Ravel’s Pavane uses the complete phrase and later return-to-movement markings. Debussy and Ravel favored such French-language directions within a wider vocabulary of tempo and expression, but the exact curve and endpoint still come from the score context.
Equivalent terms
- IT allargando
- DE breiter werdend
- EN broadening