appoggiatura


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ap·pog·gia·tu·ra

 (ə-pŏj′ə-to͝or′ə)
n. Music
An embellishing note, usually one step above or below the note it precedes and indicated by a small note or special sign.
[Italian, from appoggiato, past participle of appoggiare, to lean on, from Vulgar Latin *appodiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin podium, support (from Greek podion, base, from pous, pod-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots).]
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appoggiatura

(əˌpɒdʒəˈtʊərə)
n, pl -ras or -re (-rɛ)
(Classical Music) music an ornament consisting of a nonharmonic note (short or long) preceding a harmonic one either before or on the stress. See also acciaccatura2
[C18: from Italian, literally: a propping, from appoggiare to prop, support]
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ap•pog•gia•tu•ra

(əˌpɒdʒ əˈtʊər ə, -ˈtyʊər ə)

n., pl. -ras.
an embellishing note falling on the beat and resolving to a main melodic note.
[1745–55; < Italian: act of propping]
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Noun1.appoggiatura - an embellishing note usually written in smaller sizeappoggiatura - an embellishing note usually written in smaller size
acciaccatura, grace note
musical note, note, tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long"
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appoggiatura

[əˌpɒdʒəˈtʊərə] N (appoggiaturas, appoggiature (pl)) [əˌpɒdʒəˈtʊəre] → apoyatura f
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Beverly Jerold takes up the specific question of the appoggiatura. After considering instruction from treatises by Giuseppe Tartini, Geminiani, and Johann Joachim Quantz, Jerold ultimately concludes that most of the appoggiaturas in Scarlatti's music should be performed as short ornaments, with the appoggiatura lunga reserved for those notated in regular notes or with smaller notes of longer value.
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Beverly Jerold's recent publications include: The Complexities of Early Instrumentation: Winds and Brass (Brepols, 2015); Music Performance Issues: 1600-1900 (Pendragon, 2016); "Performance Conditions, Standards and Bach's Chorus", The Musical Times (2017); "Zukunftsmusik/Music of the Future: A Moral Question" (2017) and "A Vindication of Ferdinand Hiller" (2018), Journal of Musicological Research; "Quantz and Agricola: A Literary Collaboration", Acta Musicologica (2016); "The appoggiatura breve in Domenico Scarlatti's Sonate", in The Early Keyboard Sonata in Italy and Beyond (Brepols, 2016); and further articles in Music Theory & Analysis (2015/2014); the Journal of Singing (2017); and Early Music (2014).
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