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acciaccatura
[ uh-chah-kuh-toor-uh; Italian aht-chahk-kah-too-rah ]
noun
, Music.
, plural ac·ciac·ca·tu·ras, ac·ciac·ca·tu·re [-, toor, -ey, -, toor, -ee, -, too, -, r, e].
- a short grace note one half step below, and struck at the same time as, a principal note.
acciaccatura
/ ɑːˌtʃɑːkɑːˈtʊərə /
noun
- a small grace note melodically adjacent to a principal note and played simultaneously with or immediately before it
- (in modern music) a very short appoggiatura
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Word History and Origins
Origin of acciaccatura1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of acciaccatura1
C18: Italian: literally, a crushing sound
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Example Sentences
The acciaccatura (or short appoggiatura) is written like the appoggiatura except that it has a light stroke across its stem.
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The appoggiatura is always accented, but the acciaccatura never is, the stress always falling on the melody tone.
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In the second half of the first bar, the acciaccatura was never intended by the composer to be actually sung as printed.
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