Lautengeige

Lute violin:(16w'-ten-gi'-ge) Ger. n. also. a viol. 3. The director of a choir. 317 298 leading legato leading leg on (lu-son) Fr. n. 1. (n.) The advance of the melody Le on; lecture; a study; a piece of from one tone to another, in any part music intended to develop the taste, or parts. skill and power of the player. A 2. (adj.) Principal; chief; guiding. name used from the beginning of the leading chord Seventeenth to the close of the Eight- The chord consisting of the fifth eenth Century to denote pieces for note of the scale, its third and fifth. the harpsichord and other similar in- This is called the leading chord bestruments, usually referring to a col cause it leads the harmony into the lection of pieces forming a suite. chord built on the tonic or first note This name was sometimes applied to of the scale, and establishes the key. concerted chamber music. The same as the dominant chord. ledger leading melody The lines short extra or additional lines The principal melody or theme of a drawn above or below the staff, to composition of several parts. hold any notes too high or too low leading motive to be placed on or within the staff. The musical motive, theme or ledger space A space bounded on one or on both phrase characteristic of, or accomsides by ledger lines. panying one of the persons in a drama, or some particular emotion or leere Saiten (la-re zi'-ten) Ger. situation of the drama. The motive Empty string; open strings: in which recurs at suitable intervals. stringed instrument playing, strings This is also used for similar motives not pre ed against the frets by the in opera, oratorio and even program fingers. music. Equivalent to Leitmotif, a legabile (le-ga'-bi-le) It. adj. term used by Wagner, legando (le-gan'-do) It. part. leading note Tied; connected; smooth. A direc- The major seventh of any scale tion indicating that the piece shall be which is the note a half tone below played in a smooth, graceful, close the keynote; the note a major third manner. This is often indicated by a or four half steps above the dominant curved mark, called a slur, written or fifth note of the scale. Called over the notes. See also legato. leading note because it rises up or legare (le-ga'-re) It. v.to join two or leads up to and seems to demand the To bind, to slur: next note, the tonic. more notes together by means of a curved line above or below them in