Soave
Gentle, sweet, without edges
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Soave is an expression mark: gentle, sweet, without edges. It stresses "smooth" more than dolce, often tied to legato, soft attacks and round colour.
It is close to dolce, but dolce stresses sweetness while soave stresses smoothness and lack of abrasion. The usual mistake is to play it soft — gentleness can be present; the point is whether the sound has edges, not how loud it is.
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- soave 的表情含义，参 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Dolce"；本文为原创表述
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