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Follow on — proceed to the next section without interruption. Similar to attacca but can also mean "continue in the same manner."
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.
In piano reductions: after writing out two measures of an arpeggiated accompaniment pattern, "segue" indicates the pianist should continue the same pattern.
Segue is one of 228 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary, where every definition is written around how composers actually use the word.
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