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Webster 1913 Edition
Appoggiatura
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Ap-pogˊgia-tu′ra
,Noun.
[It., fr.
appogiarre
to lean, to rest; ap-
(L. ad
) + poggiare
to mount, ascend, poggio
hill, fr. L. podium
an elevated place.] (Mus.)
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 2024
appoggiatura
appoggiatura
English
Noun
appoggiatura (plural appoggiaturas)
- (music) 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.
- "The following Adagietto was like a long, melting appoggiatura composed of smaller dying falls and languid resolutions." — New York Times, March 2, 1992
Translations
a type of musical ornament which creates a suspension
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Portuguese
Noun
appoggiatura f (plural appoggiaturas or appoggiature)
- Alternative form of apogiatura