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LIGATURE (late lat. Ligatura - connection). 1) In the menstrual notation, signs denoting two or more connected notes. L. consist of an appropriate number of closely spaced musical signs (a league sign in the era of menstrual writing has not yet been used); they were usually performed on one syllable. Initially, L. formed from homogeneous square musical signs (heads), borrowed from choral notation, later they began to be composed of different in form of musical signs, in which the shape of the sign denoted a certain duration (see Menzural notation, Choral notation). 2) A way to increase the note duration by combining it with a league (bunch) with the duration of a neighboring note of the same height. In polyphonic. L.'s letter is widely used when introducing a dissonant sound in another voice, as well as to create rhythmic.contrast in a counterpoint voice or voices (see Polyphony). V.A. Vakhromeev.