Play this passage legato, not portato.
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Legato
/ləˈɡɑ.toʊ/
Synonyms for "legato" (86 found)
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cantandocapricciosocon affettocon agilitacon agitazionecon amorecrescendodecrescendodemilegatodiminuendodolceexecutionexpressionfingeringfortefortissimoglissando
Adjective(8 words)
Related words (43)
Adjective(3 words)
Verb(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
slurring sounds
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8 entriesexpository legatolegatissimolegato linelegato passagelegato phrasinglegato progressionnarrative legatoportato
Collocations
8 entrieslegato articulationlegato bowinglegato linelegato passagelegato phraselegato phrasinglegato stylesmooth legato
Inflections
3 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesTranslations
15 translations across 12 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- լեգատո noun (slur curve)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 連奏 /连奏 noun (slur curve)
Finnish
3 entries- legato noun (slur curve)
- legatokaari noun (slur curve)
- sidekaari noun (slur curve)
French
1 entries- lié noun (slur curve)
German
2 entries- gebunden noun (slur curve)
- legato noun (slur curve)
Greek
1 entries- λεγκατούρα noun (slur curve)
Japanese
1 entries- レガート noun (slur curve)
Māori
1 entries- rōnaki noun (slur curve)
Polish
1 entries- legato noun (slur curve)
Russian
1 entries- лега́то noun (slur curve)
Spanish
1 entries- ligado noun (slur curve)
Tagalog
1 entries- banayad noun (slur curve)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
It is the coördination of the finger and hand as examplified in the proportionate speed of shifting according to the speed of the musical passage, which makes for evenness, continuity, smoothness, and ultimately, a fine legato.
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At the end of the prelude of Caprice V, there is a chromatic ascending and descending scale of forty-eight notes to be played in one bow in legato.
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Clementi, in his "Introduction to the art of playing the piano-forte" (1801) still had to advise pianists that : "the best general rule is to keep the keys of the instrument suppressed during the whole length of the note" (p.8) and "whenver the composer leaves the legato or staccato to the taste of the performer, the best rule is to use the legato in most cases and to reserve the staccato in order to give particular passages more spirit and to enhance the higher beauties of the legato."
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