Appoggiatura
/əˌpɒ.d͡ʒəˈtʊɹ.ə/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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."
- 2 an embellishing note usually written in smaller size wordnet
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More examples"The following Adagietto was like a long, melting appoggiatura composed of smaller dying falls and languid resolutions."
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian appoggiatura, derived from appoggiare (“to lean”).