IT lasciar vibrare resonance common Support my free tools
- Abbreviation
- l.v.
How is lasciar vibrare played?
Strike or pluck the note, then leave the relevant string, bar, cymbal or other resonant body free; on piano and vibraphone, use held keys, pedal or damper state only as the passage requires. The text l.v. specifies a let-ring result rather than one universal mechanism, and an open-ended tie can express the same result through a separate graphical channel. Lasciar vibrare functions opposite smorzare or abdämpfen only when those words address the same active resonance. Because l.v. is also independently expanded as French laissez vibrer, the language or score legend should be read with the local context rather than assumed.
How does lasciar vibrare sound?
The listener hears the tone sustain and decay gradually, with the natural resonance of the instrument left intact.
In context
Italian lasciar vibrare means 'let vibrate'. Dolmetsch and independent published score legends directly expand l.v. as the exact Italian phrase, while the same letters also conventionally serve French laissez vibrer; harp, guitar, piano and sustaining-percussion practice all use the instruction, with the actual endpoint and damping mechanism left to the notation and instrument.
Music theory and score context
See also
- Glossary of musical terminology (Wikipedia)
- Laissez vibrer ties (MuseScore Handbook)
- Let vibrate (OnMusic Dictionary)
- Damping (music) (Wikipedia)
- Dolmetsch Online — L musical terms
- Library and Archives Canada — The Piano Teacher, published score
- Government of Poland — published competition score
- Edizioni Eufonia — Il manuale delle percussioni