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When I was a kid, I liked compositions with melodies which had an optimum balance of staccato and legato:

--"Narcissus" by Ethelbert Nevin
--second theme from the first movement of Tschaikovsky's 4th Symphony
--"In the Hall of the Mountain King" from the Peer Gynt Suite
--March from "Love of Three Oranges"
--entrance of the Three Kings into Amahl's house
--scherzo from the Paganini Quartet by Dvorak
--scherzo from Dvorak's 8th symphony
--scherzo from Beethoven's 5th symphony