appoggiatura
a note of embellishment preceding another note and taking a portion of its time.
Origin of appoggiatura
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How to use appoggiatura in a sentence
I will not leave them a place for adding the least appoggiatura.
The Life of Rossini | Henry Sutherland EdwardsIn this case it is not an "appoggiatura," and should be played short.
On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music | Camille Saint-SansThe acciaccatura (or short appoggiatura) is written like the appoggiatura except that it has a light stroke across its stem.
Music Notation and Terminology | Karl W. GehrkensThe appoggiatura is always accented, but the acciaccatura never is, the stress always falling on the melody tone.
Music Notation and Terminology | Karl W. GehrkensThe melodic appoggiatura is as frequent in the earlier German as the augmented chord of the fifth in the later Frenchman.
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies | Philip H. Goepp
British Dictionary definitions for appoggiatura
/ (əˌpɒdʒəˈtʊərə) /
music an ornament consisting of a nonharmonic note (short or long) preceding a harmonic one either before or on the stress: See also acciaccatura (def. 2)
Origin of appoggiatura
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