Definitions
connecting the notes; in music
Word origin
Borrowed from Italian legato, past participle of legare (“to tie up, tie together, to bind”), learned borrowing from Latin ligō (“tie, bind”). Doublet of ligate.
Used in a sentence
“Play this passage legato, not portato.”
“At the end of the prelude of Caprice V, there is a chromatic ascending and descending scale of forty-eight notes to be played in one bow in legato.”
“It schools the mind to watch for the legato all the time, as its absence at the organ is mor prominent than at the piano; but beyond this point it renders little assitance to the pianist.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Smooth musical style”6 letters
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