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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].
  1. a short grace note one half step below, and struck at the same time as, a principal note.


acciaccatura

/ ɑːˌtʃɑːkɑːˈtʊərə /

noun

  1. a small grace note melodically adjacent to a principal note and played simultaneously with or immediately before it
  2. (in modern music) a very short appoggiatura
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of acciaccatura1

1875–80; < Italian: literally, a pounding, crushing, equivalent to acciacc ( are ) to crush, bruise (based on an echoic root ciacc- ) + -atura ( -ate 1, -ure )
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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.

The appoggiatura is always accented, but the acciaccatura never is, the stress always falling on the melody tone.

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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