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Legato   /ləgˈɑtˌoʊ/   Listen
Legato

adjective
1.
(music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected.  Synonym: smooth.  Antonym: staccato.
adverb
1.
Connecting the notes; in music.  Antonym: staccato.






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"Legato" Quotes from Famous Books



... records made for "His Master's Voice" series by Alma Gluck. This lyric soprano has sung the two MacDowell songs with sympathy and perfect phrasing. The accompaniments were played by a Mr. Bourdon, who unfortunately disregarded the composer's tone and legato indications. ...
— Edward MacDowell • John F. Porte

... che s'interna, Legato con amore in un volume, Cio che per l'universo si squaderna; Sustanzia ed accidente, e lor costume, Tutti conflati insieme par tal modo, Che cio ch'io dico e ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge

... 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



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