Definition of Appoggiatura. Meaning of Appoggiatura. Synonyms of Appoggiatura

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Definition of Appoggiatura

Appoggiatura
Appoggiatura Ap*pog`gia*tu"ra, n. [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.

Meaning of Appoggiatura from wikipedia

- Appoggiatura A p****age with two phrases ending in appoggiaturas, followed by these phrases without them (160 KB) Problems playing this file? See media...
- and stylistically appropriate trills, mordents (upper or lower) and appoggiaturas. Ornamentation may also be indicated by the composer. A number of standard...
- acciaccatura when notated with an oblique stroke through the stem, or an appoggiatura when notated without. When they occur in groups, grace notes can be interpreted...
- specifically a French sixth chord, F–B–D♯-A, with the note G♯ heard as an appoggiatura resolving to A. (Theorists debate the root of French sixth chords.) The...
- in the second movement of Arcangelo Corelli's Christmas Concerto. An appoggiatura (APP) is a type of accented incomplete neighbor tone approached skip-wise...
- other keys, or as appoggiatura chords: a chord rooted on the raised second scale degree (D♯–F♯–A–C in the key of C) acts as an appoggiatura to the tonic (C...
- to articulate a repetition, to emphasize an expressive high point or appoggiatura and to set a particular mood at the beginning of a piece. The first main...
- Baroque music it occurs in J. S. Bach's ornament tables as a stressed appoggiatura, indicated by a half circle or "C" in front of a note. This ornament...
- major or minor scales. Chords of the ninth and eleventh and unresolved appoggiaturas, such as those in the Valses nobles et sentimentales, are characteristic...
- "novel harmonic effects often result from the combination of ordinary appoggiaturas or p****ing notes with melodic figures of accompaniment", and cadences...