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Rachel _Not_Idiot
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Rachel _Not_Idiot asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicClassical · 1 decade ago

Looking for a musical term?

For the first movement of an orchestral work, I'm looking for a term that means "with restrained urgency". "Agitato", at least on its own, connotes too much agitation and no restraint.

Does anyone know of a suitable word/phrase?

Thanks in advance.

Update:

Thanks to both of you.

I had used Google Translate, but since I don't speak Italian outside of musical terms, I thought I'd ask here to make sure I didn't use a word that I thought conveyed a particular shade of meaning but didn't.

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  • drakolan
    1 decade ago
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    Agitato non troppo

    Agitated, but not too much.

    Or hell, just put "With restrained urgency" I tend to use English in most of my score directions. Mahler wasn't too worried about finding the Italian equivalent of what he was saying either.

  • Cgmary
    1 decade ago

    Agitato non troppo (agitated but not too much) or deciso (with determination).

    Source(s): http://www.musictheory.org.uk/res-musical-terms/it...
  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    con urgenza contenuta

    literally "with restrained urgency"

    Source(s): http://translate.google.com/#
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