Segue

As Printed on a Score

Printed at the end of a section or movement — “segue”, “segue l’Allegro”, “segue Aria” — to say the next part follows at once, much like attacca. Inside an accompaniment, after a pattern has been written out, it means carry on the same way, much like simile. Position decides: at a double bar it means go on; inside a passage, keep the pattern.

How Composers Use It

Segue can mean either "continue without pause" (like attacca) or "continue in the same style/pattern." When you write a pattern that should repeat, "segue" tells the performer to keep going in the same way without writing out every repetition.

Example

Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12, piano, m. 73: “segue” at f leads straight into the next bar’s “Andante”, marked espress. and una corda.

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