Non legato

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Non legato (Italian: “not connected”) is a type of articulation in music. It sounds like a legato , in which the individual notes stand out more clearly because there is a tiny pause between them.

The non legato as a type of attack on the piano is a legato from a staccato position , that is, you let your hand float over the keyboard, but play the notes as closely as possible, as in legato. The tiny pause is created by the time between raising the previous finger and lowering the current finger.

In singing , the non legato can be used for particularly fast coloratura , so that the notes sound more precise and not smeared and so that less air is consumed and thus longer coloratura can be sustained. So you let the tones out with the larynx into individual, small, even puffs of air with minimal caesuras in between.

literature

  • Clive Brown: Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-19-516665-5 , pp. 186–199 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Roland Jackson: Performance Practice: A Dictionary Guide for Musicians. Routledge, New York and London 2005, ISBN 0-415-94139-3 , pp. 18-20 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Wieland Ziegenrücker: ABC music. General music theory. 6th edition. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-7651-0309-4 , pp. 230-231.

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