Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, in a light, easy, rapid manner, without emphasizing single tones: usually applied to a decorative or episodical passage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb music Lightly, delicately, or gently.
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Examples
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L'escalier du diable: Presto legato ma leggiero, Aimard Sony 7. Robert Schumann.
Archive 2007-04-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007
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L'escalier du diable: Presto legato ma leggiero, Aimard Sony 7. Robert Schumann.
Reference Tracks Patrick J. Smith 2007
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Other members of the company whose names are worthy of preservation were Maria Peri (soprano leggiero),
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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His principal soprano leggiero was Mlle. Pinkert, a Polish singer of good routine and fine skill; his dramatic soprano, Mlle. Russ, whose knowledge of the conventions of the stage was complete, and expressive powers excellent, though they exerted little charm.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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Jennie Broch (soprano leggiero), Marie Ritter-Goetze (mezzo-soprano),
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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Architetto si vide qualche leggiero barlume di buona Architettura, come di Pittura in Cimabue suo contemporaneo.
Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866
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Mariusz Kwiecien looked elegant as Escamillo, but sang with that rough bark he often uses these days, instead of the wonderful - often wonderfully sinister - leggiero sound he makes when singing Mozart.
Opera Today 2010
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Molto vivace, scherzando e molto leggiero [3'56] 6.
VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅 jtwh2000 2010
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Alek Shrader, a lyric-leggiero tenor in the Florez/Banks mould, already has the the high c's and the character for a Nemorino or Almaviva incubating solidly.
parterre box squirrel 2009
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There have been a few representations in English within this time and a considerable number in Italian, our operatic institutions being quick, as a rule, to put it upon the stage whenever they have at command a soprano leggiero with a voice of sufficient range and flexibility to meet the demands of the extraordinary music which Mozart wrote for the Queen of Night to oblige his voluble-throated sister-in-law, Mme. Hofer, who was the original representative of that character.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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