| 单词 | legato |
| 例句 | For example, most ballads are sung legato, and most marches are played fairly staccato or marcato, whether they are marked that way or not. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Often, such music calls for notes that are a little more separate or defined than legato, but still nowhere as short as staccato. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Some articulations may be some combination of staccato, legato, and accent. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They are usually longer than staccato but shorter than legato. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Other notes may be marked with a combination of articulation symbols, for example legato with accents. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In both, the strings play with mutes, creating a sound like a summer-morning haze, over which the clarinet drifts in unhurried legato lines. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z There were rough patches in her singing: sustained tones that turned wobbly, tenderly soft phrases that lacked legato elegance. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z And on one misty passage of “Pantheon” — around 2:30 — he comes close to the phantasmagoric, frictionless legato of Allan Holdsworth. The Playlist: The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar Join Forces, and 15 More New Songs 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Tango is essentially a form of stylized walking; this pair, like great musicians, work in firm legato phrases. Dance Review: Gabriel Missé and Analía Centurión Dance Tango 2013-08-12T21:40:10Z The dancers don’t dance to this, anyway, though sometimes they pointedly dance against it: staccato to the music’s legato, low-key to its high-energy power, or vice versa. Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-03-08T22:36:23Z Villa’s fluid legato and her palpable warmth of expression were especially lovely. The least shall be first: In Washington Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ kids are the stars 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z All of this was missing in a transcription that sounded persistently legato, dark and ponderous. Diderot String Quartet’s odd rendition of Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z With her, even matters of sheer technique emerge as poetry, as in the velvety legato of her scales running the length of the keyboard. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z The smoothness of that ascent was magical, otherworldly, and though other risks resulted in imperfections, her sustained legato and control were remarkable. American Ballet Theater Presents ‘Giselle’ 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z He brought melting legato phrasing to lyrical passages. Review: Plácido Domingo Is Gone, but He Still Haunted ‘Macbeth’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z He provided an immaculate accompaniment to Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, in which soloist Akiko Suwanai's glossy tone and seamless legato made up for a certain blandness of character. BBCSO/Davis 2010-04-14T21:15:00Z Even Desandre’s fast runs emerged with smooth legato flow, as opposed to the machine-gun vibration that some singers bring to this music. Review: At Carnegie, Going Beyond the Rapid-Fire Vivaldi 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Her dancing has a number of beautiful thick-as-cream legato moments — and it certainly has heroic strain — but is inclined toward monotony. Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z He sounded in fine form, his athletic voice navigating the coloratura hurdles with smooth legato and impressive control. Music Review: ?L?Elisir d?Amore? at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-07T00:10:31Z Beethoven was one of the biggest admirers of Clementi, whose compositional achievements included an expressive use of legato. Music Review: Olivier Cavé Plays Bach and Others at the Frick Collection 2014-03-17T22:13:54Z But his approach, here and elsewhere, was the opposite of Björk’s: he wanted to sing in such seamless legato phrases, with no apparent intake of breath, that his human limitations would be forgotten. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z But when she needed to, she sang melting phrases with silken legato and shimmering beauty, especially her poignant performance of “Adieu, notre petite table” in Act II. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z He began with Macbeth’s “Pietà, rispetto, amore” from Act IV, which he sang with smooth legato phrasing, melting sound and cleanly focused tone. Belgrade Philharmonic Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Best, though, is to concentrate on the basic beauty of his style, which is essentially legato: gliding, lingering and sweeping across the floor in currents stronger and calmer than the firestorms they often contain. Dance Review: Gabriel Miss? and Analia Centuri?n at Dardo Galletto Studios 2012-03-08T00:28:13Z He didn’t just spin legato lines in the searching, conversational Nocturne; he expounded entire legato paragraphs in an eloquent, unbroken stream of consciousness. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z “They’ve all heard the word ‘legato,’” he said of today’s young singers. At Caramoor, an Operatic Milestone That’s Both Farewell and Beginning 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The New York Times described a 2013 performance of his at Carnegie Hall as “a paragon of lyricism: breathtaking in its pianissimos, utterly fluid in its legatos, gleaming in its ornamental flourishes.” Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z And the movement is protracted, its dynamics softened by a pronounced legato quality. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Joyce Theater 2012-06-28T21:07:57Z Her interpretive approach favored elastic tempos, legato phrasing and pointed dynamic contrasts. Alisa Weilerstein woos in romantic reading of Bach Cello Suites 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z She fills her music to the brim: She doesn’t hang on beats or counts; she floods her every phrase with singing legato, rhythmic brio and suspenseful variety. Review: Dancing Chickens and a Real Pony in American Ballet Theater’s Comic Pastoral 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z What there is, is that lush, legato sound, its flowing phrases stretched over its rhythmic details, a singular approach to what all music should sound like. 120 CDs Later, a Conductor’s Legacy Is Still Uncertain 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z This would be admirable if it wasn’t an end in itself; instead the varied legato, marcato and staccato are the main spectacle. Dance Review: Shantala Shivalingappa at Joyce Theater 2012-06-28T21:07:57Z “All we like sheep” was sung with elegant legato and ended in stark loveliness, but it had little excitement. Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Long, legato lines in the first movement flowed but had a tensile strength; the second was dragged out daringly, as if concealing worry. Review: Manfred Honeck Coaxes a Burnished Sound From the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z And this is musical acting, phrased to its accompaniment with legato fluency. Indian Dance and Music at the Drive East Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z With exemplary legato phrasing, she combined cool objectivity and rapture. Review: Balanchine and Shakespeare Catch Some Waves in Miami 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z The dancing, however, generally rides over the individual beats in an endlessly calm legato. Dance Review: Royal Ballet of Cambodia at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-05-03T22:54:41Z I missed a hallmark of Mr. Domingo’s glory days: smooth, legato phrasing. Review: ‘Ernani,’ With Plácido Domingo, a Tussle to Hold on to a Love 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Where the score gives us a flowing legato melody, Mr. Neumeier gives us moves that are abrupt and sharply accentuated. Review: ‘Sylvia’ at the Joffrey Ballet, a Myth Revamped 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z But the pianist’s fingers, even his whole body language, propelled the listener into the music’s distant reaches of wildly emotive harmonies and treated Beethoven’s delicate moments of passionate lyricism with a gentle legato. Pianist Brian Ganz’s fresh take on Debussy, Beethoven That sovereignty of his singing, that calmness, that musicality, that wonderful legato! Tenor Jonas Kaufmann takes on Tristan, opera’s voice killer 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z There are endless means of expression with the mandolin, including many ways of making a legato besides the famous tremolo. In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Avi Avital aims to reshape the sound of classical music 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Within the opening minutes he opposes stillness and movement, horizontal and vertical lines, staccato and legato dynamics, closed and open body shapes. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet Performs Liam Scarlett?s ?Viscera? 2012-01-30T22:12:57Z “Never be aggressive, but shape the notes with the most expressive legato you can possibly manage.” ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z As Dido, she seemed overly concerned with lovely tone and legato phrasing, sometimes at the expense of making words clear. Review: Kelli O’Hara’s Operatic Turn in ‘Dido and Aeneas’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Given the competition around right now, I cannot think of a soprano who could sing any better this demanding role, which requires luscious legato phrasing, a powerful top range and stamina. Music Review: Puccini?s Western Seeks Lyrical Gold 2010-12-07T17:10:00Z The bass Kevin Deas balanced stentorian delivery with smooth legato phrasing. Music Review: Oratorio Society of New York?s ?Messiah? - Review 2011-12-20T21:59:08Z For “Eleanor Rigby,” the Beatles recorded versions of Martin’s backup arrangement with a string octet using lush classical vibrato and legato phrasing, but they wisely chose a brusque, woody attack instead. ‘Revolver,’ Newly Expanded, Shows the Beatles at a Creative Peak 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z He played a Piazzolla solo in which you just felt hints of tango threading through the rhapsody: descending pizzicati were contrasted with marvelously mellow tone in legato, and the pauses between phrases were exquisite. Dance Review: ?Tango y Vida? at Chase Latino Cultural Festival 2010-08-02T22:00:00Z What’s fascinating in those opening lifts is how they fit the music — matching its overall phrasing in long legato sweeps rather than following the quicker incidental pulse. Meet Aurora of ‘The Sleeping Beauty’: Her Native Language Is Classical Ballet 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Gramophone magazine praised the performer's "power and longevity" but added it was "never at the expense of a sweet legato line, near-perfect diction and beauty of sound". Operatic tenor Bergonzi dies aged 90 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Yanagitani’s touch reminded me of why the piano is considered a percussion instrument, and it was only in Schumann’s gently lyrical Andante movement that he backed off and blended in with an appealing legato. A delicious and bite-size program of two piano quartets 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The effect is often achieved with such inevitability that we scarcely notice that the dancers are arching in gorgeous legato phrases to a solely pizzicato accompaniment. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the David H. Koch Theater 2014-03-12T21:55:29Z During the longer legato notes, they wipe at the air with their arms, a very Mark Morris move. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Where it was punchy, they slid over it in a smooth legato. Review: Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Raymonda,’ Searching About for a Perfect Suitor 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z In French songs by Fauré and Reynaldo Hahn, she broadened legatos and let the language revel in a more spacious focus. A splendid recital of Spanish and French songs by soprano Ailyn Pérez 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Alternating between legato and staccato, her tone practically bounced off the harpsichord, and she tumbled gracefully through intricate passagework. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Endowed with an ample, vigorous voice and a knack for expansive legato lines, he may mature into a tenor to watch. Review: A Lifeless Revival of ‘Don Giovanni’ at the Met 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z Alternately applying brute force, meticulous clarity of finger work and legato line, Gewirtzman made a strong case for this lesser-known work. A young virtuoso makes his D.C. debut 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Though there are jumps, balances and lifts, there are no highlights; the choreography’s greatest beauty lies in the silken legato flow that threads together a wide range of steps. Love Two Ways: Ashton and Balanchine on Romance 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Some distant church bells start ringing, and with warm sound and smooth legato phrasing, Gobbi sings a gentlemanly line that complements the bells. The Best Opera Recording Ever Is Maria Callas Singing ‘Tosca.’ Hear Why. 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Her Azucena is a creation of soaring high notes, fluttering trills, seductive legato, chilling low tones. Review: A Surprise Star Steals the Met’s ‘Il Trovatore’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z On the recording, propulsive, shifting arpeggios come off as sluggish, with lapses of legato phrasing. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Its deceptively simply Rondo finale, sometimes wandering off into unexpected keys, sounded crisp under Biss’s light touch, and he found a lovely meditative legato for the Andante. A piano recital highlighting the poetic chops of pianist Jonathan Biss 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z If he lacked spontaneity, he sang with suave legato and crisp diction. Music Review: Gun-Totin? Br?nnhilde 2011-07-17T21:45:27Z The young countertenor Hugh Cutting was on less sure footing in similar passages, in which his intonation was unreliable compared with smoother legato melodies. Review: A ‘St. Matthew Passion’ Balances Grandeur and Calm 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Judy Garland is all vibrato and tears; Sinatra is all legato and regrets. The Pure Artistry of Frank Sinatra 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The texture of his sound is gentle but its presence powerful, sustained through long, calm legato lines. Dear Met Opera: Please, More Concerts Like This Berlioz 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z He met the songful radiance of the Adagio with a serene, delicately wrought legato, and romped through the finale with seemingly carefree abandon. John O’Conor performs at Catholic University for International Piano Festival This aria benefits when sung by a soprano with plush sound and velvety legato, not Ms. Radvanovsky’s selling points. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z But by the ardent legato flow of his 13th Variation — a steadily unwinding lyricism made possible by the precision of his technique — the accumulating power of the interpretation was clear. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Beethoven’s melodic dimension — so undervalued — inspired Morlot and the orchestra to wonders of sustained legato and euphonious phrasing. At Seattle Symphony, cosmic radiation from Beethoven and Messiaen 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Powell imbued his interpretation with a bel canto aesthetic, singing with beautiful legato, smooth and mellifluous timbre and a rich dynamic palette. Will Crutchfield Conducts ‘Rigoletto’ at Caramoor 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Still, the legato elegance and vocal weightiness of his singing have their own rewards. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Tosca’ Overcomes Months of Chaos 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Her most obvious gift has always been an unearthly ease of moving, a corporeal legato. Carmen de Lavallade is 86 and still the best dancer in the room 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The Wagnerian legato of the last minor-key variation reached a stentorian fortissimo to emphasize the dissonances of its final cadence. Review | Angela Hewitt’s cinematic Goldberg Variations 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z And ahead, you may hear the long legato tones of an alphorn announcing that a helicopter-stocked mountain hut is open … and the coffee schnapps is on. Off the beaten track in Switzerland 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z "In one way it's really modern, with the electronics stuff, but it's also really classical, with the legato orchestra," Tankian says. System of a Down's Tankian explores new "Harmonies" 2010-08-21T01:04:00Z From my seat the balance favored Ma’s fulsome tone by a slight margin; Ax’s legato playing sounded a bit watery even with the lid on his Steinway fully opened. Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos and Emanuel Ax: Brahms all-stars at Disney Hall 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Schiff’s playing is all the more remarkable, since he uses no pedal at all, a feat requiring impressive control and legato. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z The Bach suite was unfailingly musical, each phrase shaped with dynamic contrasts and a luxurious legato that would do a Chopin nocturne proud. Review | Murray Perahia recital packed with canonic masterpieces, to uneven effect 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z A bland legato carried performers from the beginning to the end of each dance, and all followed their music as if from a cue sheet. Contrasting Gelsey Kirkland’s Troupe and Ballet Academy East 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Only a deceptively legato storytelling solo from Bowie delivered any individuality. Review | Saxophonist Azar Lawrence’s Coltrane devotion takes center stage at Blues Alley 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z The Fifth Suite’s Allemande is sensuous, its Courante robust; its deceptively simple Sarabande has long-lined legato flow, before a bursting Gavotte and the sustained energy of the Gigue. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z For him, the pedal is a coloristic device rather than an aid to legato; his left hand is one of the subtlest in the business. Review | Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Vogt Trio’s combined musical voice impresses at Library of Congress 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z The music at once gives us a complex array of legato and pizzicato effects; and the dancers soon develop a look of sophisticated, elegant unpredictability. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz Brings a Certain Eccentricity to Dance at Joyce 2014-02-05T22:27:31Z And though the duo’s plush sonorities, legato line and sense of rhapsody — often at luxurious tempos — suggested music written several generations after Beethoven, the performances never tumbled into ham-handed overstatement. Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, partners in sublime 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z It would be even easier to take the chapters thereafter, with their increase of legato and their worrying slowness, their care to nodding, slow-booted reading. Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z Although he never achieved broad stardom, his legato playing and protean harmonic flow influenced a generation of guitarists. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Clean attacks, silky legato and enchanting trills are at her disposal. Review: Handel’s ‘Serse,’ With Yuks and Exquisite Playing 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Kaufmann opted instead for a consistent legato, sometimes at odds with the orchestra and, in extreme cases, slurring phrases into unintelligibility. Review: Opera Stars Take On an Omicron-Battered Vienna 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z The piece evolved from folksy plucking and rhythmic percussive bangs, influenced by West African music, to archetypal plush string legato, like that heard in the Webern ingeniously placed right before it. Dover Quartet begins Kennedy residence with style 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z With his striking command of legato, melodies flow in a broad stream, embedded in but never overpowered by the ensemble. Review: Intimate Schubert Expands to Fill the Orchestra 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z You have to have perfect legato, and perfect breath control, to get through a lot of long phrases. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Here the marcato stresses within a phrase, here the staccato end of a step, here the legato current, with the three elements often variously combined: all marvelously fresh. City Ballet Revives Three Pieces in Repertory 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The pianist handled Beethoven's daunting fistfuls of legato double notes and lightening quick staccato chords with undiminished athleticism and stamina. Murray Perahia evokes suspense, sadness and exhilaration at Disney Hall 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Especially fine was the legato of the strings: not just tonally lovely but suspenseful. Mariinsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z On a recording with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque, she begins in a mood of unearthly tranquility, joining notes in a liquid legato. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z It says — since a cantilena is a smooth, sustained vocal line — that the underlying idea of breath and legato connection carry through into dancing. Critic?s Notebook: Line in Dance? Let?s Go Back to the Drawing Board 2011-01-31T23:58:51Z It was all thick-cream legato, marvels of equilibrium and transition, falling, rising, bending and curving in one seamless sequence. ‘Horizon Events,’ Inspired by the Parameters of a PS1 Gallery 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z In a single implacable legato sequence, a look upward under a raised arm leads is not up but down, as the legs and torso lower the dancer into an almost flattened squat. Review: A Lost Merce Cunningham Dance Solo, Found 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z In the demanding aria “Casta diva,” Ms. Meade sang Bellini’s ornately embellished phrases with velvety legato; climactic high points in the flowing melody soared over the orchestra, elegantly conducted by Joseph Colaneri. Review: Listening at the Met, After James Levine 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z What remained in his playing was startling: a smooth legato in his improvising, dynamically even, almost lapidary; a manner of accompanying soloists so silky it was almost provocative. Peter Bernstein Quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z The delicacy, legato and individuality of the three Shostakovich preludes and fugues — Nos. Sound worlds spinning from a single keyboard 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Coupled with a three-time Kind Heaven and expansive Deeds of Kindness the role demands a lyrical voice with a good legato. Guadagni: the first modern singer? 2012-07-19T13:13:24Z Her ripe tone quality sang directly and naturally throughout the first two movements, with a seamless legato, no forcing, and a sure grip of the overall line. Simone Porter, Ludovic Morlot a star combo at Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Gittens is not by nature a lyrical, legato performer, but she dances from the heart and with her huge, expressive eyes, and involves you from the first moment in her character's story. Swan Lake – review 2012-10-13T23:06:25Z The first is all legato flow and perfumed fragrance; though the fairy’s gestures indicate that her gift is beautiful arms, what’s most evident is her tranquil openness. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z She filled out perfectly steady legato lines with golden colours, then threw off elaborate cadenzas with a dazzling ease which left the lightweight canaries open-beaked with envy. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z Denk’s fingers were clean and precise in the running notes of the early variations and even more bravura in the less legato movements, where he was lighter on the sustaining pedal. In Jeremy Denk’s Kennedy Center recital, the music has the most meaning when he talks about it 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The subtext: don't judge me for that, judge me for the 20 years of work inside – for my velvety legato, my spectacular coloratura, my sprightly melismas, my formidably maturing technique. Ceclia Bartoli: the limitations of being a mezzo 2010-12-23T22:00:04Z He sings with unforced power and shapes Verdian phrases with supple legato. Review: Metropolitan Opera’s New ‘Otello,’ Bold and Tentative 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z You’re immediately struck by the length and soaring range of some of Beethoven’s phrases, his frequent use of extreme legato and drastic dynamic contrasts. Dance Review: ‘Danza Permanente’ at the Kitchen 2012-09-27T22:09:46Z Elsewhere Spence struggled to reach high notes and ends of phrases; it was mezzo Karen Cargill, with her nutty, velvet timbre and tender legato, who fully captured the magnitude and vulnerability of Mahler's songs. SCO/Ticciati – review 2013-03-19T17:17:15Z Mr. Sun exploited the instrument’s delicate yet lush sonority with flowing legatos and characterful phrasing. Review: All Beethoven, All Evening, on Period Instruments 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z He showed a fondness for works with long legato lines, such as those of Frédéric Chopin and Erik Satie. Nine Inch Nails: a human scream in Reagan’s postindustrial America 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Like that account, Mr. Frost’s reading of the Mozart concerto was a paragon of lyricism: breathtaking in its pianissimos, utterly fluid in its legatos, gleaming in its ornamental flourishes. Music Review: Martin Frost, Clarinetist, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2013-12-09T21:54:32Z On opening night, Friday, Sept. 25, he looked and sounded terrific, singing with his trademark velvety legato, dusky vocal colorings and consummate Verdian style. Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Being Treated for Brain Tumor, Sends Love to Fans 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z It didn't help their legato playing at all, but sounded remarkably like a giant snoring. Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival – review 2012-11-26T12:37:30Z Q: There’s a wonderful presence of time as a kind of medium in the film — a sort of a legato smoothness to the long takes, and then things move into this more staccato third act. Cate Blanchett on ‘Tár’ role: ‘Music is often the starting point for me’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Stringed instruments, with their capability for sweeping legato movement between pitches, are the instruments most akin to the human voice, and thus most relatable and sympathetic to our innermost vibrations. Perspective | The QAnon ‘anthem’ is a familiar sales tool — with strings attached 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Krizsa, as gentlemanly in his choreography as in his dancing, placed all the emphasis on Kharatian, spotlighting her sensuality and effortless legato. Review | New Washington Ballet dances try to solve puzzles of life and death 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The legato notes echo in the empty space. Bagpiper's nightly coronavirus serenade sounds a mournful yet hopeful note in Santa Monica park 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Writing on the Observer website, James Jorden called him “impressive” and said “he demonstrated absolute security in the part’s heavy declamation and a smooth legato in the character’s love scenes.” Tenor moves out of Anna Netrebko’s shadow 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z In musical notation, legato calls for a series of notes to be played or sung smoothly together. How Do We Sing Our ABC’s? L-M-N-O-Please Not Like That 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Compared with many previous piano bots, this one showed flexibility in volume control, thumb movements and playing both staccato and legato, Ms. Hughes said. Watch a Robotic Hand Play the Piano With a More Human Touch 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z She foregoes use of a musical staff and relies instead only on an all-purpose musical note, legato marks and the space of the page to suggest "Suspenseful Background Music," "Very Fast Rap Song" and more. Review: What does sound look like? Artist Christine Sun Kim's funny, at times enthralling answers 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z But even at its lowest dynamic ranges, at its most legato, the song contains a quiet fury. The Roots mixed past and present for an impassioned message of injustice – LA Times 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z She was also playing a West Texan, but her accent was more flowing, in part because she was relaxing her vowels — Bay described it as a legato to Cooper’s staccato, appropriate for her world-weary character. The Accent Whisperers of Hollywood 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z After a turn from Jen Shyu on vocals, Matt Mitchell takes a piano solo, more legato and harmonically satisfying as it unfurls. The Playlist: Drake Shows Off His Latest Obsessions 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z High notes, low notes, chest voice, coloratura, staccato, legato - the whole package. Met opera launches 10th HD season 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z We could use more gags in “The Humbling,” as we could have in “Elegy,” which traded the kvetching of the text for a suave legato. “The Humbling” and “Timbuktu” Reviews 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z "Mercy" begins on a harsh staccato tone and melts into legato. Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev bring 'Solo for Two' to Segerstrom 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Advantage, of legato over staccato, 22. of universal fingering, 27. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z There are many passages in Beethoven's works which, though not marked with slurs, require to be played legato. Life of Beethoven 2012-03-12T03:00:21.693Z She has a spit-spot coloratura as Olympia and a melting legato as Antonia, and her stage guises are as varied as can be. Kinky Brothel Games Intrigue in ENO’s ‘Hoffmann’: London Stage 2012-02-15T14:58:22Z There is a busy, buzzing string accompaniment, and the melody is a gentle, legato waltz movement. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Some of the women in the audience nearly went into hysterics at the long legato notes at the beginning of the piece. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z Touch, faulty, 8, 43. finger, 19, 50. biting the finger-nails spoils the, 19. legato, 24, 63. crisp legato, 24. piano, 26. organ, 26. repetition, 34. charm of Chopin's, 86. and Technique, 155. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z He made me play it again perfectly legato, and with no one note "sticking out" more than another. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z In legato, of course, they should be neither separated nor overlapping, but exactly contiguous. How to Write Music Musical Orthography 2011-09-01T02:00:19.133Z The steady accompaniment and firm legato theme are the woof and warp through which, around which, and over which a little five-note appoggiatura sports like a weaver's shuttle. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z As they grew up they hunted the "legatos," a very large lizard, who lived among the rocks, behind the house. Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay 2011-06-28T02:00:11.447Z Slurs indicate either a legato touch or the grouping of the notes. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z The technical capabilities of the flute are practically unlimited to a good player who can obtain sustained notes diminuendo and crescendo, diatonic and chromatic scales and arpeggios both legato and staccato, leaps, turns, shakes, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Of course it requires cultivation and skill to secure just the right degree of finger-motion to preserve the legato and at the same time the slight separation of each tone. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z The lingering legato melody seems to rise softly and rest in the air until it passes away in tones so faint that Bizet has marked them four times pianissimo. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z It’s calm, it’s studiously legato, it’s meant to command attention. Christine O'Donnell's (be)witching hour 2010-10-05T17:01:00Z The latter quality, however, can never be developed without the legato touch. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z If one may talk of a "silent music of form," here everything was legato, while the little artist was in a perpetual staccato movement. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. While this extreme staccato is also desirable and frequently used, it is not the kind of effect here desired, namely, a clear, clean delivery of the tones which in no wise disturb the legato effect. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z Like all love-songs it is legato, andante, and pianissimo, but at the same time noticeably original and characteristic. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z The basis of all fine singing, whether in the opera house or on the concert stage, is a good legato. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists To play a rapid run non-legato will consume much more time than to play it legato because of the lifting of the fingers between the tones. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z When presently he broke into a rapid movement, and the pianoforte player asserted himself, it was still with the touch of the good old legato school. Fragments of an Autobiography Therefore the fingers must not be drawn so quickly as to produce a separation or staccato effect, but in just the right degree to avoid impairing the legato or binding effect. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z Its mellifluous melody is written pianissimo, dolce, legato, amoroso, and the orchestra carries it one measure behind the voice, thus keeping the theme constantly in the air like a sweet incense. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z After one has been through a mass of such material, the matter of legato singing becomes more or less automatic. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists In playing legato the fingers are not lifted off the keys, but—hardly losing contact with the ivory—glide sideways to the right or the left as the notes may call for it. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Of Clementi’s playing in his youth, Moscheles wrote that it was “marked by a most beautiful legato, a supple touch in lively passages, and a most unfailing technique.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" The wide arpeggios in the left hand, maintained in a continuous stream of tone by the strict legato and fine and constant use of the damper-pedal, formed an harmonious substructure for a wonderfully poetic cantabile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Curious little effects of staccato mingled with the most linked together legato. Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso The connection between one tone and another in good legato is so clean, so free from blurs that there is nothing to compare it with. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Only in this manner is a true legato touch to be attained. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z It may, after some time, be taken right through upon the vowel ah, and finally legato, gradually increasing the speed, to the Italian word scala, singing the syllable la to the last note. The Mechanism of the Human Voice No contrast could be stronger than that between these two themes—the first, impulsive, staccato, of sweeping range, and in the minor; the second, suave, legato, restrained and in the major. Music: An Art and a Language The wonderful melody ascended gradually in the scale as it progressed, now trilling, now legato, the most perfect, exalted, unrestrained, yet withal, finished bird song that I ever heard. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 If one were to gradually slide one coin over another coin you would have a graphic illustration of what most people think is legato. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The selection of a practical fingering is, of course, of paramount importance for a good legato touch. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z The tyrannical reign of the perpetual "legato" succeeded. On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music By which I do not mean the brilliant technical feats of arpeggio, staccato, tremolo, etc., but the pure legato bowing of cantabile passages. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. The sensation in legato playing is that of pulling back rather than striking the keys. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression A good legato can only be acquired after an enormous amount of thorough training. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The Advantage of Legato Over Staccato Is it better for me to practise more staccato or more legato? Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z On this account it happens that the indication of "legato" is very rare. On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music Gazing down upon her a moment, he said in his soft legato: "I am almost angry at you for being so beautiful, after having taken yourself to other lovers, Ma belle." Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter To play it with true legato, at any desired degree of force or speed, in any desired rhythm and with any desired touch, is one of the most difficult achievements in all music. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression In all these the connected legato of the melody is of the first importance; and, second, the proper sinking and swelling of the melody in the true manner of impassioned singing. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations For the acquisition of a legitimate legato Chopin's works cannot be highly enough recommended, even in the transcriptions by Godowsky, which become impossible when tried with any touch other than legato. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z A charming quaint effect is got by the accompaniment of the air, played legato on the swell, with an echo, staccato, of its own chords on the great. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The tones must follow one another without break, unless the character of the music demands detached effects; in other words, there must be a perfect legato. Essentials in Conducting To sing legato is one thing; to sing strisciato is another. Style in Singing The theme itself affords a very pretty contrast between the staccato of the first period and the close legato of the second period. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations As the playing of passages in single notes requires a close single legato, to do double thirds requires an equally close double legato. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z The staccato sign seems not to have appeared until about the time of Bach, the legato sign being also invented at about the same time. Music Notation and Terminology The demand for continuity means that the singer must have a pure legato. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing Mozart, who led the Viennese school, developed the singing style of playing and the smooth flowing legato. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music The first variation has the melody in the tenor, unchanged excepting to make it legato. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The Firm and Crisp Legato Touch I am confused by the terms "firm legato touch" and "crisp legato touch." Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z He almost cried out 'Legato, legato,' to coax back the lilt which had caressed his ear a moment before. The Parts Men Play The basis of phrasing then, may be found in legato, sostenuto and contrast. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing In it he directs scholars how to avoid a harsh tone, and how to form a legato style. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music It should be played as if it were being done by a string quartet, as legato and sympathetically as possible. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations I am convinced that the degree of perfection of finger technic is exactly proportionate to the development of the legato touch. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Some allow pupils to practise only staccato, and others only legato, aiming thereby at nobody knows what. Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances It is a great achievement to be able to sing all consonant combinations and still preserve a legato. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing Unfortunately, this school invented as well continuous legato, which is both false and monotonous; the abuse of nuances, and a mania for continual expressio used with no discrimination. Musical Memories Furthermore we do not simply strive for plain legato touch. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Technique is a generic term, comprising scales, arpeggios, chords, double notes, octaves, legato, and the various staccato touches as well as the dynamic shadings. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z The final beauty of the violin tone, the pure legato, remains in the beginning as in the end a matter of holding the violin and bow. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers When he attempts the dramatic he finds that it destroys his legato. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing Nevertheless, the trick of perpetual legato becomes exceedingly monotonous and takes away all character from the pianoforte classics. Musical Memories The old instruction books tell us that legato must be learned first, and is the most difficult touch to acquire. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers As to the exact details of legato playing I may refer you to my book, "Piano Playing," where you will find the matter discussed at length in the chapter on "Touch and Technic." Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z I know that when playing for him, if I came to a passage which demanded an especially beautiful legato rendering, he would say: 'Now show how you can sing!' Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers To listen to some of the dramatic rôles of to-day, one would think that smooth legato singing was a lost art. Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers The accompaniments were played by a Mr. Bourdon, who unfortunately disregarded the composer's tone and legato indications. Edward MacDowell But legato does not bring the best results in rapid passages, for it does not impart sufficient clarity. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers The most beautiful tone in legato style is ever produced by a "clinging and singing" gliding of the fingers over the keys. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z The exquisite legato he taught was all a matter of perfect bowing, and as he often said: 'There must be no such thing as strings or hair in the pupil's consciousness. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Unbelievable, and yet so horribly actual as this was,—was what had thus far happened only the legato and pianissimo passages of their adventure, with crescendo and fortissimo still ahead? No. 13 Washington Square The 'cello murmured a gentle undertone; the first violin sang as sweetly and delicately as a bird, her legato perfect. The Second Violin Every note must be round and full and not too legato—rather a mezzo legato—so that single tones, played hands together, shall sound like octaves. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers In rapid passages, where the control through the ear is lessened, the legato is produced by more strictly mechanical means, but there should, nevertheless, always be two fingers simultaneously occupied. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z The sweetness of tone, its melodiousness, its legatos, octaves, trills and harmonics all bear the mark of the individual who uses his strings like his vocal chords. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Sing this exercise first semi staccato, afterwards legato. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art In every school of singing the roulade is effected by means of the staccato and legato. Delsarte System of Oratory Paderewski lays great stress on legato playing, and desires everything to be studied slowly, with deep touch and with full, clear tone. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers There is no plural to the word "legato." Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z After all, there are only two general principles in violin playing, the long and short bow, legato and staccato. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Articulation, under right conditions, will not interfere with the legato flow of voice. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art "Shan't I play you some Beethoven?" she asked, "something with a legato passage and great solemn chords, and a silver melody binding the whole together?" The Bent Twig Double passages, such as double thirds and sixths, should be divided and each half practised separately, with legato touch. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Give the preference to legato, for it produces the genuine piano tone, and it develops the technique of the fingers; while the staccato touch always tends to draw the arm into action. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z It demands constant rapid changing and, as most pupils play it, the legato quality is noticeably absent. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Of course the voice must sing from the highest to the lowest note with a continuous legato flow. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art It was wonderful, the bitterest, stinging things she could say over and over again, in her slow, legato tones. A Terrible Secret I teach three kinds of legato—the passage legato, the singing legato, and the accompanying legato; the pupil must master the first before attempting the others. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers My teacher makes me use it exclusively, but I notice that my playing is neither legato nor quiet. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Often pupils who play quite well show a want of true legato quality in their tone, because there is no connection between their bowing in rapid work. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers It is not necessary, as many suppose, to sacrifice distinct utterance in song for the sake of the legato flow of voice, the most desired mode of singing. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art The question whether a legato or a staccato opening be the more desirable must be decided in accordance with the nature and opportunities of each theme. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship If you attempt even a simple sonata with no legato touch, no idea of chord or scale playing, you can not make the piece sound like anything. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers This playing "in the air" is lost energy, and will not lead to a good legato. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Shifting, extension and string crossing have all been previously considered, and hence the legato should be allowed to take its even course. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers On the other hand, the free legato flow of the vowels need not interfere at all with distinct articulation. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art As regards individual incidents, it may be said in general that the dramatic way of treating them is the crisp and staccato, as opposed to the smooth or legato, method. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship I practise them in legato, staccato and in other touches, but mostly in legato, as that is somewhat more difficult and more beautiful than the others. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers The accumulation of each chord should be produced through the pedal, not through an excessive legato touch. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Absolute accuracy of intonation and a singing legato is the result. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers This style of articulation often disturbs the legato flow and spoils the general effect. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art Or compare the light legato movement of "Bird of the wilderness, blithesome and cumberless," with the heavy staccato movement of "Waste endless and boundless and flowerless." The Principles of Aesthetics When single fingers can make accurate up and down movements, we can put two fingers together and acquire a perfect legato. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers He wrote them, so to speak, out of his own hand, and his legato is so perfect that it may well be taken as a model by anybody. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z And there are so many different nuances, especially in legato. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers This I felt obliged to remedy, partly by legato playing, and partly by pizzicato. My Life — Volume 1 Its technical object is a simultaneous legato and staccato. Chopin : the Man and His Music The fifth page needs great power and the legato octaves well connected and sustained. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers As soon as another note intervenes the tie becomes a slur and indicates a legato touch. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z To secure a good legato tone watch the singer. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Deep in his furry throat a succession of legato growls were born. His Dog Riemann repeats his trick of breaking a group, detaching a note for emphasis; although he is careful to retain the legato bow. Chopin : the Man and His Music I practise them in various touches, but oftener in legato, as that is more difficult and also more beautiful than the others. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Riemann phrases the study with a multiplicity of legato bows and dynamic accents. Chopin : the Man and His Music The singer can establish the perfect smoothness that legato calls for to perfection. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers He taught the scales staccato and legato beginning with E major. Chopin : the Man and His Music |
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