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Articulation is a musical parameter that determines how a single note or other discrete event is sounded. Articulations primarily structure an event's start and end, determining the length of its sound and the shape of its attack and decay. They can also modify an event's timbre, dynamics, and pitch. [1]
In vocal music a slur normally indicates that notes under the slur should be sung to a single syllable. A phrase mark (or less commonly, ligature) is visually identical to a slur but connects a passage of music over several measures. A phrase mark indicates a musical phrase and may not necessarily require that the music be slurred.
In music performance and notation, legato ([leˈɡaːto]; Italian for "tied together"; French lié; German gebunden) indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, the player makes a transition from note to note with no intervening silence. Legato technique is required for slurred performance, but unlike ...
Note the use of slurs by the composer to indicate the intended phrasing. Musical phrasing is the method by which a musician shapes a sequence of notes in a passage of music to allow expression, much like when speaking English a phrase may be written identically but may be spoken differently, and is named for the interpretation of small units of ...
Tie across the beat, followed by identical rhythm notated without tie. In music notation, a tie is a curved line connecting the heads of two notes of the same pitch, indicating that they are to be played as a single note with a duration equal to the sum of the individual notes' values. A tie is similar in appearance to a slur; however, slurs ...
Portato ([porˈtaːto]; Italian past participle of portare, "to carry"), also mezzo-staccato, French notes portées, [1] in music denotes a smooth, pulsing articulation and is often notated by adding dots under slur markings. Portato is also known as articulated legato. [2]
Sheet music to Ernest Hogan's "All Coons Look Alike to Me". Sheet music to "Ma Honey Gal". Coon songs suggested that the most common living arrangement for Black people was a "honey" relationship (unmarried cohabitation), rather than marriage. “The Niggardly Nigger”, an example of a British coon song, published in London in 1900.
Portamento. In music, portamento (pl.: portamenti; from old portamento, meaning 'carriage' or 'carrying'), also known by its French name glissade, is a pitch sliding from one note to another. The term originated from the Italian expression portamento della voce ('carriage of the voice'), denoting from the beginning of the 17th century its use ...