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• e (Ital.) – and
• eco – the Italian word for "echo"; an effect in which a group of notes is repeated, usually more softly, and perhaps at a different octave, to create an echo effect
• ein wenig (Ger) – a little
• Empfindung (Ger) – feeling
• encore (Fr) – again; i.e., perform the relevant passage once more
• en dehors (Fr) – prominently
• energico – energetic, strong
• enfatico – emphatically
• en pressant (Fr) – hurrying forward
• en retenant (Fr) – slowing
• eroico – heroically
• espirando – expiring; i.e., dying away
• espressivo or espr. – expressively
• estinto – extinct, extinguished; i.e., as soft as possible, lifeless, barely audible
• etwas (Ger) – somewhat