Meaning & use
Amabile
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A musical direction indicating that a passage should be played or sung in a gentle, amiable, and loving manner.
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The conductor asked the strings to play the second movement amabile, softening every phrase.
Marked 'andante amabile', the piece calls for a warm, tender tempo.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from Italian, where it means 'lovable' or 'amiable'; common in classical sheet music as a tempo and expression marking.
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