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How to pronounce appoggiatura in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms acciaccatura, grace note
Type of musical note, note, tone

Examples of appoggiatura

appoggiatura
For example, what is written as an appoggiatura is often meant to be longer or shorter than the notated length.
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The music of the Southern school is usually slower, and the ornamentations are predominantly short melodic turns, trills, and appoggiatura or grace note.
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Particularly characteristic is a figure where successive notes of an arpeggio are each preceded by an appoggiatura-like grace note one semitone below.
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Last week in Los Angeles, Les Fetes d'Hebe was given a glowing new production that reveled in each melodic appoggiatura and terpsichorean temps de courante.
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  • Grace note: an embellishing note usually written in smaller size
  • In music, ornaments are musical flourishes that are not necessary to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line. Many ornaments are performed as "fast notes" around a central note. ...
  • A melodically important musical ornament, sounded on the beat, preceding a main note (which it is one scale-step higher or lower than) and normally subtracting for itself half of the time value of that main note; written as a note of smaller size like the acciaccatura, but without the semi- ...
  • A nonharmonic tone, usually a half or whole step above the harmonic tone, which is performed on the beat and then resolved.
  • An unprepared, non-harmonic note, which does not belong to the chord on the strong beat. Approached by leap and resolves downwards or upwards by step (sometimes by leap) into the chord. In contrast, suspensions are prepared (not approached by leap) and never resolve by leap. ...
  • An Italian term for an ornamental note (which does not fit the harmony of the music), which either rises or falls to a note which does fit the harmony of the music
  • (From the Italian appoggiare meaning to learn.) A short-duration tone that is a neighboring note (a semitone or whole tone higher or lower) of the principal note which it precedes. [1]
  • Played with a very light and quick motion, leading immediately to the following note. Also called a "grace note".
  • N. - Music, short note placed before a longer one. short appoggiatura, acciaccatura.