acciaccatura
a short grace note one half step below, and struck at the same time as, a principal note.
Origin of acciaccatura
1Words Nearby acciaccatura
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
How to use acciaccatura in a sentence
The 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. GehrkensIn the second half of the first bar, the acciaccatura was never intended by the composer to be actually sung as printed.
Style in Singing | W. E. Haslam
British Dictionary definitions for acciaccatura
/ (ɑːˌtʃɑːkɑːˈtʊərə) /
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
Origin of acciaccatura
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse