Exempel på legato

• In the first section, a high-pitched, cheerfully inexpressive chordal staccato is followed by a contrasting legato phrase tracing melodic contortions at the lower octave.

• Everyone continues to walk slowly and gracefully and to sing the long flowing lines in appropriate legato style.

• Similarly, changing the numbers in the articulation list will make a legato phrase sound more staccato.

• Unlike wind and bowed instruments, it cannot produce a true legato, and once the key comes down, you cannot affect its sound.

• In particular, the gentle, predictable, and legato characteristics of lullabies were emphasised as being appropriate.

• Especially fascinating would be to see whether differences of articulation correspond at all to the prevailing trend towards ever more sustained legato playing.

• The fluid, almost liquid legato phrases finally distilled into droplets.

• In so doing she creates a legato stream.

• Marked onset: normal (non legato) onset of a wind or string instrument.

• Do the long slurs indicate merely a legato style (as with some composers of the period) or actual bowing (as with others)?

• Function tables are used effectively in slurs, legato and ornaments.

• He performed it very slowly, with legato phrasing, well-rounded 'choral' vowels and slight vibrato.

• We also note that the interpretation of many annotations is instrument dependent; for example, a legato phrase will be interpreted quite differently when using a piano versus, say, a violin.

• Play the phrase legato (smoothly).

• Since it involves deliberate wastage of air (with a resultant lack of penetration), the singer has to hold support muscles strenuously to sustain long legato spans.