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How is sehr gesangvoll played?
The performer leans even harder into the singing quality: a strongly projected, long-breathed melodic line, generous legato and careful voicing so the tune sings above everything around it. 'Sehr' is the German intensifier 'very', so this is a graded reinforcement of gesangvoll rather than a separate idea, much as 'molto cantabile' intensifies cantabile in Italian. Composers use it when an ordinary singing tone is not enough and the vocal character should dominate the texture. As with gesangvoll, the emphasis falls on line and tone rather than on overt emotional intensity.
How does sehr gesangvoll sound?
The listener hears an especially vocal, foregrounded melody, sung with marked breadth.
In context
Sehr gesangvoll is the intensified German direction 'very songful', formed from 'sehr' (very, a standard glossary term) and 'gesangvoll' (songful, the counterpart of cantabile). It is a graded reinforcement rather than a marking tied to a single attributable work.
Equivalent terms
- IT molto cantabile
- FR très chantant
- EN very cantabile
- DA meget sangbart