A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Piangendo

PIANGENDO, 'wailingly.' A direction properly only used in vocal music, but affected a good deal of late by writers of drawing-room pieces. Its proper instrumental equivalent is 'dolente' or 'con dolore.'

[ J. A. F. M. ]

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