facilissimo

Facilissimo is a musical term of Italian origin meaning “very easy.” It is the superlative form of facile and is used as an expression marking to indicate that a passage or section should be played with a particularly low level of technical difficulty. The term signals ease rather than tempo and is often encountered in educational materials or scores intended for beginner players.

In practice, facilissimo appears as an instruction placed above the staff or near the beginning of a piece or movement. It is most common in piano and string pedagogy, where editors label easy sections to guide practice. While not a tempo marking, it may accompany tempo indications in beginner literature to emphasize a simple, approachable character.

Related terms include facile (easy) as the base adjective, and facilissimamente (an adverb meaning “very easily”). A more extreme form exists as facilissimissimo, used to stress an even higher degree of ease in some contexts. The term is comparatively rare in standard repertoire but remains in use in method books and instructional editions to describe the intended difficulty level.