Questions tagged [legato]
A musical indication that two or more notes should be played smoothly and connected-- i.e. no intervening silence between notes.
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Guidelines for notating legato
I’m transcribing a piano part. I initially wrote it this way (for clarity). In reality, if you listen to the example, the piano is played legato.
Does it make sense to write it as in the first ...
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Can a flutist make an accent during a legato?
Writing a music for flute & piano, I wrote some fragments like this one for the flute:
the tempo is about 𝅘𝅥 = 112-114.
I wonder if is it possible to play the accents within the legato. I'm aware ...
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Too much Staccato as a beginner guitarist, what to do? Can be naturally corrected in time?
Question itself already tells much. As I see, this is a common issue among new guitarists. My playing more of sounds like hammer drill. tik tik tik... I want to sound more of smoothly changing notes, ...
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Staccato and legato on a violin simultaneously? [duplicate]
Can anybody explain to me how it is possible, if possible at all, to play staccato and legato on a violin simultaneously?
Here is a score I stumbled upon on YouTube:
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Breathing strategies writing choral music
This is my very first time writing choral music. I'm planning on having a choir making a re-exposition of an electric guitar theme.
This way, I wrote a choir (bass, tenor, alto, soprano) fragment of ...
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Why are all legato practices about 3 notes per string?
Is it normal if I practice legato on 5 positions major, minor scale?
The thing I notice practicing legato with 5 positions scale is harder to keep tracking on metronome, since some string only has two ...
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Guitar triplet legato: should i lift all fingers while moving to the next string?
I see many legato practices didn't mention about it.
Each time i play 3 notes in one string, i tend to lift all 3 fingers and pick the next string first note (2 left fingers are on the air).
I notice ...
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Legato and pedaling with octaves
I'm returning to the piano after 7-8 years away. I took lessons for 15 years then stopped after college, but I'm trying to play without a teacher for the time being, then will potentially get a ...
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Tenuto, legato and staccato on the same note
In the first bars of the Barcarola et Scherzo by Alfredo Casella the piano part has chords with legato, tenuto and staccato signs all together:
What is the correct way to play these notes? What could ...
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Terminology for Note Hold/Released Fractions in Rhythm?
I'm trying to figure out what (Western musical) terms are most accurate to use in documentation I am writing for an electronic music file format. In these formats there is a parameter that specifies ...
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Legato and silence? [duplicate]
Debussy at the end of La fille aux cheveux de lin
How do you play that? Is the middle pedal of a Piano playing a role there? If yes, how?
Thanks!
Eduardo Duarte
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Duration of articulations (e.g. staccato, tenuto) for piano
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Staccatissimo, staccato, mezzo-staccato, portato, non-legato, tenuto, legato.*
For piano, what would be a (rough) numerical representation of these articulations' gap duration for note ...
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Why include both "sempre legato" and slur marks?
In Mendelssohn's 6 Kinderstücke Op. 72 No. 2 "Andante Sostenuto" (See the first 6 bars in the image below) there is the indication to play "sempre legato" and there are slurs as ...
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What is the difference between two connected slurs and one big slur?
I want to play this piece. This is the third lesson from the Bergmüller Opus 100 book and the piece name is 'La Pastorale'.
There is a slur for these notes: G,B,C,D and another slur for these notes: ...
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Why is legato articulation needed
Can someone clarify why the legato articulation is needed in notation? Staccato 'shortens' the duration but surely the default is legato? How can a note be played more legato?
