Dictionary: L

the

the same

beat remains constant when the meter changes

laughing

mournful, sad, tearful

position (in string playing); the range of an instrument

doleful

doleful

tearful

mournful, sad, tearful

eight stringed instrument in the lute family, tuned in fifths, a folk instrument of the Kosovar Albanians

music played with the accent played slightly after the beat to convey a relaxed, casual feeling

to allow, to leave

lamenting, mourning

lamenting, mourning

lamentation

lamenting, mourning

lament

term from the eighteenth century to describe a bass line that falls successively by a half step to denote grief or sadness

lamenting, mourning

gusto

Austrian rural dance or air, usually in 3/4 or 3/8 time, slow waltz

long

languorously

languorous

slow

slower

languishing

languishing

languishing

languor

languidly

languid

languishing

languor

dignified and slowish

dignified and slow

dignified and slowish

not as slow as largo

an extremely slow tempo, slower than largo

broad

breadth

the upper part of the trachea in the human throat

to allow to

allow, let

Spanish lute with a flat back, 12 metal strings in 6 courses and a pear shaped body

loud

lute

Greek lute

Turkish lute

direction indicating that a player should be silent, in jazz

the; the lowered sixth degree of the major scale

the seventh degree of a major scale

the seventh degree of a major scale

a skip; the movement from one note to another

a plectrum made of leather

life, vivacity

lively

livelier

lively

livelier

liveliness

short lines drawn through, above or below the heads of notes that are written above or below the staff

See Left hand fingerings in Elements of a Musical Score See Left hand fingerings in Left & Right Hand Fingerings See Elements of Standard Notation…

smooth playing style in which the notes seem bound together

smooth playing style in which the notes seem bound together

exceedingly smooth

smooth playing style in which the notes seem bound together See legato in Note Symbols

bind, slur, syncopation, tie

a legend

light

light

lightly

lightness

lightly

lightness

light

lightness

as light as possible

lightly

light

gracefully

graceful

graceful

lightly

lightness

light

lightness

as light as possible

lightly

light

music stand

Luigi (1790 1877) See Classical Guitarists and Composers

funeral music

easy, light style

frivolous, giddy

lightness, easiness

sorrow

passion

passionately

soft, gentle

softer

to perform

performance

gentle

gentle

slow

slowly

slowing

slowed

slowly

slowness

slowness

very slow

slow

the

a short keyboard piece or pieces from the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries

quickly

very quickly

quick

last

to lift, to take off

lift off

a piece to be played under a bedroom window in the morning

lightness

the raised sixth degree of the major scale

legato, slur, tie or bind

freely

free, unrestrained

freedom, liberty

free

freely

a spontaneous musical phrase, melody or passage often drawn from a stock of scales, arpeggios…….

slurred, tied

love

charming, lovely

song

songs

song collection

joy

very joyous

joyous

light

lightly

lightness

a rising glissando attached to the end of a note; to transcribe a musical score from a recording

In classical guitar usage, ligados include hammer ons and pull offs: hammer on : a finger drops firmly onto a higher fret to sound a note pull off…

slur, tie

used graphically to denote ends of bars, the pitches of notes, articulation , used to describe aspects of melody

a stave line

chord that results from linear motion

textual data that convey information about a music recording, for example

call and response singing

material that appears between the end of one phrase and the beginning of the next, but belongs to neither

left hand

moving one's lips to music that has been pre recorded

instrument

smooth

smooth

reverent music

treble version of the Chinese lute, had originally 2 or 3 strings and 7 frets, but today may have up to 4 steel strings, and up to 24 frets, sounds…

lute

lute

a five course plucked string instrument

book Llobet, Miguel (1878 1938) See Classical Guitarists and Composers Locanda (Italian) tavern Loco (Italian) read the notes as written

Basque lullaby

distant

faint

distance

distant

a piece of material that plays over and over

free in style, loose

Moroccan pear shaped lute

human impression of the strength of a sound

(France) heavy

(France) heavy

heavily

heaviness, weight

airy

lugubrious, mournful, sad

(1790 1877) See Classical Guitarists and Composers

a cradle song

luminous

long

long

loco

to play in an intimate manner

to play in an intimate manner

cheerful

cheerfulness

comedy

lute

a plucked stringed instrument with a pear shaped body and fretted fingerboard

a plucked stringed instrument with a pear shaped body and fretted fingerboard

a maker of stringed instruments

mourning

mournfully

mournful

mournful

six string lyre guitars were popular on the Continent early in the 19th century

an intense personal quality, expressive of feeling or emotion, expressed in poetry or music