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Wiktionary

  1. n. music A dissonant music note. Used in Baroque music as a decorative embellishment of a melodic note. The grace note is played as quickly as possible and takes no time from the melody note. The symbol for this grace note is a smaller quaver with a line through.

Etymologies

  1. Borrowing from Italian acciacatura. (Wiktionary)

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  • seanahan Missing from most of the sources, but it's in Ninja. Jul 28, 2007

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