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Definition of Appoggiatura
1. Noun. An embellishing note usually written in smaller size.
Definition of Appoggiatura
1. n. A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.
Definition of Appoggiatura
1. Noun. A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows. ¹
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Definition of Appoggiatura
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appoggiatura
Literary usage of Appoggiatura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"appoggiatura, compound. An appoggiatura consisting of two or more grace notes or
... appoggiatura, inferior. An appoggiatura situated one degree below its ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"The appoggiatura is short when used before two "т mure repeated notes (Ex. 1 7),
... In triplets, or groups of four or more equal notes, the appoggiatura is ..."
3. The Theory and Practice of Tone-relations: An Elementary Course of Harmony by Percy Goetschius (1917)
"THE appoggiatura. 277. The appoggiatura is an unprepared neighboring-note, which
is simply placed before its principal tone, without reference to what ..."
4. An Open Door for Singers: Hints to Vocalists by Reinhold Ludwig Herman (1912)
"THE appoggiatura—THAT IS, THE THING WHICH LEANS ON SOMETHING ELSE The word ...
In the first case, when the appoggiatura consists of a single note, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"(e) à These are the typical forms of the long trill ; they differ in different
kinds of time ; eg or when preceded by an ascending appoggiatura : the tempo ..."
6. The Art of Singing: Based on the Principles of the Old Italian Singing by William Shakespeare (1910)
"THE appoggiatura. The appoggiatura offers special difficulty, because its value
is often undefined and has to be left to the taste and feeling" of the ..."
7. Vocalism, Its Structure and Culture from an English Standpoint by William Hammond Breare (1904)
"THE appoggiatura. THIS, the simplest of all embellishments, is a note foreign to
the harmony, and has really no time value. It is a passing note on which ..."
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