Teneramente (It.: ‘tenderly’)
- George Grove
Extract
(It.: ‘tenderly’)
A direction indicating a style of performance rather more sentimental than that called for by dolce (sweet), but on the whole having much the same meaning and use in music. A good instance of the distinction between the terms is found in the second movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in E minor op.90, where the subject, at its first entry labelled ...