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adjective
Legato  adj.  (Mus.) Connected; tied; a term used when successive tones are to be produced in a closely connected, smoothly gliding manner. Opposed to staccato.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Legato" Quotes from Famous Books



... in Pentecoste resedit rex Londoniae in Turri, episcopo tantum modo Sagiensi praesente: ceteri vel fastidierunt vel timuerunt venire. Aliquanto post, mediante legato, colloquium indictum est inter imperatricem et regem. si forte Deo inspirante pax reformari posset."—Malmesbury, Hist. Nov. (Rolls Series No. ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

... fifteen. In her cheeks, too, the blushes fluctuated readily and softly, and when she smiled, her teeth showed like those of a little child in size and purity. Her voice matched her beauty well, never loud, always melodious, with a peculiar, gliding, legato movement of the graceful sentences, for the pleasing effect of which she was indebted partly to Nature, and much more to Art. She appeared on this evening in a green silk dress, matronly in shade and general style, but not devoid of coquettish ...
— At Last • Marion Harland



Words linked to "Legato" :   staccato, smooth, music



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