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music-glossary: elision

 
 1.114 elision
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 ES: sinalefa, I: elisione, F: élision, D: Elision, NL: ?, DK: ?, S: ?,
 FI: tavujen yhdistäminen yhteen ääneen.
 
    More properly _synalepha_ [New Lat.  > Gr.  _συναλοιφη_, from Greek
 _συναλοιφην_ ‘to smear together’].
 
    The singing of several syllables on a single note.  Elision may be
 indicated by a lyric tie, which looks like (and serves the same
 function) as a musical tie.
 
 
 See also
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    lyric tie.
 

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