appoggiatura

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/əˌpɒ.d͡ʒəˈtʊɹ.ə/

Definition of appoggiatura

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

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.”

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Borrowed from Italian appoggiatura, derived from appoggiare (“to lean”).

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