Citations:legato
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English citations of legato
- 1974, Hugo Cole, Sounds and Signs: Aspects of Musical Notation, London ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
- The Berlioz marking might be taken to imply an expressive accent, a falling away on the second note, and a legato over the whole. How should we read the three slurs of the Mahler example?
- 2014, Johann Sebastian Bach, Donald Francis Tovey, Eric Wen, The Well-Tempered Clavier: 48 Preludes and Fugues, Courier Corporation (→ISBN), page 157:
- […] is, on the whole, much to be said for phrasing the Subject simply according to its figures — i.e., making a legato over the six duavers from the F to the С inclusive; starting again with the semiquavers in bar 2, and proceeding in one bow to the D […]
- 2008, Charles Rosen, Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: A Short Companion, Yale University Press (→ISBN)
- The notation of the right hand at the beginning of the written-out repeat raises a question: Beethoven ties the legato over the bar at first but then ceases to do so, and does not even repeat it when the same bars return at the opening of the third ...