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In music, la is the syllable applied to the sixth tone of the scale in music in solmization.
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In music, lacrimoso is a directive to play in a plaintive, mournful or pathetic style.
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The lambada is an erotic dance, originating in Brazil, performed by two people who hold each other closely and gyrate their hips in synchronised movements. The term is also used to describe the music that accompanies the lambada, which combines salsa, calypso, and reggae.
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The Lambeth walk is a line dance that was popular in Britain in the 1930s.
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The lancers is a dance first introduced in Paris in 1836. It is an imitation of a military dance in which men used lances.
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A landler is an Austrian peasant dance, similar to a slow waltz. The name is also given to the music played for the dance.
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In music, languente is a directive to play in a languishing manner or pathetically.
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In music, larghetto is a directive to play somewhat slowly, but not so slowly as largo, and rather more so than andante.
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In music, largo is a directive to play slowly. More so than adagio and next in slowness to grave.
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The laud is a Spanish flat backed lute with twelve metal strings in six courses and a pear-shaped body.
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In music, a leading motive is a guiding theme. In the music drama of Wilhelm Wagner, a leading motive is a marked melodic phrase or short passage which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person, situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the play forming a sort of musical label.
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In music the leading note is the seventh note or tone in the ascending major scale, the sensible note.
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In music a leap is a passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other and intermediate intervals.
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In music a ledger line is a line added above or below the staff to extend its compass.
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Legato is a term in music signifying that the passage must be played very smoothly, the notes succeeding each other with the least possible break.
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In music, leggiadro is a directive to play in a light, delicate, and brisk style.
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In music, lentamente means slowly or in slow time.
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In music, lentando means slackening or retarding.
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In music, lento means slow or in slow time.
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In music, a libretto is a book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music.
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Liederkranz (wreath of songs) is the title of a group of songs, and is the common name for German vocal clubs of men.
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A liedertafel is a society or club which meets for the practice of male part songs.
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In music a ligature is a curve or line connecting notes, thereby forming a slur.
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In music, loco is a direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
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The lojki are Russian wooden spoons played as a percussion instrument.
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The lute is a family of stringed musical instruments that were in use during the 14th to 18th centuries. The lute had a pear-shaped convex back built up of staves of various kinds of wood, a flat breast - usually of pine - a bridge, a fretted finger-board, and strings tuned in pairs of unisons and from one to three sound holes in the breast. Lutes were played by plucking the strings with the thumb and fingers.
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The lyre was an ancient musical stringed instrument of Eastern origin. It consisted of a hollow resonant body, from each end of which rose a gracefully curved horn-shaped arm, turning out towards the top. The upper parts of the two arms were connected by a cross-bar, to which the strings were attached; and the latter, after passing over a bridge resting on the body, had their lower ends fastened to the bottom of the instrument. The strings, varying in number from three to eighteen, were sounded by being struck with a plectrum held in the right hand, while the fingers of the left hand checked the vibrations of those strings required to be silent. The Greek cithara was a large form of lyre.
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