Articulation

• dolce - sweetly
• legato - smooth, connected playing
• espressivo - expressively
• legato - smoothly connected notes
• staccato - detached or shortened notes
• tenuto - stroke (sustain) the note
• Slur - A series of notes played without any breaks inbetween, with the last note played staccato usually except from when at the end of a piece
• sforzando - with force or emphasis (stronger than accent)
• phrase - a longer slur (smoothly connected notes) without a staccato last note ever