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Definition of Grace note
1. Noun. An embellishing note usually written in smaller size.
Definition of Grace note
1. Noun. (music) A musical note written in smaller print, with or without a slash through it, to indicate that its note value does not count as part of the total time value of the measure. ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) Concerns of secondary importance to that which is of primary concern. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grace Note
Literary usage of Grace note
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)
"Leaning note ; grace note ; note of embellishment. See below. Appoggiatura, compound.
An appoggiatura consisting of two or more grace notes or notes of ..."
2. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1914)
"The student must not neglect practising the grace- note at the beginning of the
tone, ... The long grace-note allows the singer some degree of latitude. ..."
3. Mistakes and Disputed Points in Music and Music Teaching by Louis Charles Elson (1910)
"In violin or vocal music, if the note following the principal note is of the same
pitch, let the grace note take almost the entire value of the note it ..."
4. The Musiclover's Handbook: Containing (1) a Pronouncing Dictionary of by John Herbert Clifford (1911)
"grace note; appoggiatura. Auxiliary Scales. Related scales. B B. The seventh or
leading tone of the natural major scale; in German, the note or key of Bb, ..."
5. The Oxford History of Music by William Henry Hadow (1901)
"The breve, like the long, admitted the grace note, which was exhibited in the
brevis plica, a figure similar in form to the longa plica but inverted in the ..."
6. Studies in Musical Graces by Ernest Fowles (1907)
"In a figurative sense, the weak or unaccented sound (of a grace). NOTE D'AGR£MENT.
(Fr.) A grace note. NOTE D'ANTICIPATION. (Fr.) Vide Anticipation. ..."
7. Piano Teaching: Its Principles and Problems by Clarence Grant Hamilton (1910)
"4: The exact place of the grace-note, or acciaccatura, is frequently a matter of
... 3: In case the grace-note preceded a group of notes in the same hand, ..."
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