Crossword clues for legato
legato
- Smooth Italian ice cream setter sent back
- Smooth gelato melted
- Smooth ale got drunk
- In a smooth and flowing manner (music)
- Staccato's opposite
- Connected, in music
- Smooth and connected, musically
- Smooth and flowing, musically
- Smoothly, on scores
- Smoothly in music
- Smooth: Mus
- Smooth, in a musical score
- Smooth, as music
- Performed smoothly
- Opposite of staccato
- In music, the opposite of staccato
- Hardly staccato
- Flowingly, in music
- Flowing, musically
- Connected, as in Copland
- (Of music) smoothly
- (Musically) the opposite of staccato
- Smoothly, to Solti
- Not staccato
- Musically flowing
- Smooth, musically
- Musically connected
- Smooth, in scores
- Smoothly, in musical scores
- Smooth, to Solti
- Smooth, in music
- Smoothly, on a score
- Smooth and connected, in music
- In a smooth, flowing manner, in music
- Played smoothly
- Smooth: Mus.
- Musically smooth
- Smooth musical passage
- Smooth and connected musical passage
- A trowel initially breaking bricks smoothly
- Smoothly set up a big tent without power
- Smoothly flowing (music)
- Smooth support, a tiny bit short
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Legato \Le*ga"to\ (l[asl]*g[aum]"t[-o]), a. [It., tied, joined, fr. legare to tie, bind, L. ligare.] (Mus.) Connected; tied; -- a term used when successive tones are to be produced in a closely connected, smoothly gliding manner. It is often indicated by a tie, thus ?, ?, or ?, ?, written over or under the notes to be so performed; -- opposed to staccato.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1811, from Italian legato, literally "bound," past participle of legare, from Latin ligare (see ligament). Of music to be played smoothly, without intervals.
Wiktionary
adv. (context music English) smoothly, in a connected manner. n. (context music English) A slur curve above or below a passage of notes indicating that they should be played in a legato manner.
WordNet
Wikipedia
In music performance and notation, legato ( Italian for "tied together"; French lié; German gebunden) indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, the player makes a transition from note to note with no intervening silence. Legato technique is required for slurred performance, but unlike slurring (as that term is interpreted for some instruments), legato does not forbid rearticulation. Standard notation indicates legato either with the word legato, or by a slur (a curved line) under notes that form one legato group. Legato, like staccato, is a kind of articulation. There is an intermediate articulation called either mezzo staccato or non-legato (sometimes referred to as " portato").
Legato is a musical articulation which indicates that notes are to be played smoothly.
Legato may refer to:
- Papal Legate, a representative of the Pope abroad
- Lesbian and Gay Inter-University Organization, LEGATO, an LGBT organization in Turkey aimed at university students
- EMC Legato NetWorker, a backup software solution from EMC Corporation
- Legato Systems, a computer software storage company taken over in 2003 by EMC Corporation
- The character Legato Bluesummers in the anime and manga series Trigun
- Frank Legato, American author
Usage examples of "legato".
Cassivellaunus hoc proelio nuntiato tot detrimentis acceptis, vastatis finibus, maxime etiam permotus defectione civitatum legatos per Atrebatem Commium de deditione ad Caesarem mittit.
Sed meridie, cum Caesar pabulandi causa tres legiones atque omnem equitatum cum Gaio Trebonio legato misisset, repente ex omnibus partibus ad pabulatores advolaverunt, sic uti ab signis legionibusque non absisterent.
Ibi cum ius diceret, Bituriges ad eum legatos mittunt auxilium petitum contra Carnutes, quos intulisse bellum sibi querebantur.
Eius adventu Bituriges ad Aeduos, quorum erant in fide, legatos mittunt subsidium rogatum, quo facilius hostium copias sustinere possint.
Ibi cum ius diceret, Bituriges ad eum legatos mittunt auxilium petitum contra Carnutes, quos intulisse bellum sibi querebantur.
Sed posteaquam nonnulli principes ex ea civitate et familiaritate Cingetorigis adducti et adventu nostri exercitus perterriti ad Caesarem venerunt et de suis privatim rebus ab eo petere coeperunt, quoniam civitati consulere non possent, veritus ne ab omnibus desereretur Indutiomarus legatos ad Caesarem mittit: Sese idcirco ab suis discedere atque ad eum venire noluisse, quo facilius civitatem in offlcio contineret, ne omnis nobilitatis discessu plebs propter imprudentiam laberetur: itaque esse civitatem in sua potestate, seseque, si Caesar permitteret, ad eum in castra venturum, suas civitatisque fortunas eius fidei permissurum.
Namque omnes Aquitaniae civitates legatos ad Caesarem miserunt obsidesque ei dederunt.
Ad hos omnes casus provisa erant praesidia cohortium duarum et viginti, quae ex ipsa provincia ab Lucio Caesare legato ad omnes partes opponebantur.
Treveri vero atque Indutiomarus totius hiemis nullum tempus intermiserunt, quin trans Rhenum legatos mitterent, civitates sollicitarent, pecunias pollicerentur, magna parte exercitus nostri interfecta multo minorem superesse dicerent partem.
The aired pilot went on to receive the 1993 Emmy for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, an award that Legato shared with Gary Hutzel, Michael Gibson, and Dennis Blakey.
Violins, viola, violoncello, contrabass playing legato, staccato, now legato again.
Si riparava dal freddo con una vecchia coperta strappata, e teneva accanto a sé le poche cose che possedeva - due piccole scatole di cartone piene di cianfrusaglie e un ombrello sporco che una volta doveva essere stato bianco - legate insieme con uno spago, a sua volta legato intorno al polso, per evitare che qualcuno gliele rubasse mentre dormiva.