Chorus Vocabulary L - O

42. largo - very slow and broad

43. leading tone - the seventh degree of the scale ( solfege “ti” )

44. ledger lines - lines written above or below the staff

45. legato - smoothly, with no separation between notes

46. leggiero (leggero) – light (soft)

47. lunga – a long pause

48. major scale - a diatonic scale (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do)

49. marcato – marked, stressed

50. molto espressivo – very expressively

51. motif - a short musical idea or melodic theme

52. natural - cancels a previous sharp or flat

53. notation - any means of writing down music

54. ossia – an easier to perform alternative musical passage