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music-glossary: portato

 
 1.241 portato
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 [Italian: past participle of _portare_, ‘to carry’]
 
    A stroke in which each of several notes is separated slightly within
 a slur, without changing the bow’s direction.  It is used for passages
 of a cantabile character.
 
 
 See also
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    legato.
 

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