acciaccatura

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The acciaccatura (or short appoggiatura) is written like the appoggiatura except that it has a light stroke across its stem.

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  1. noun Music An ornament note that is one half step or one whole step below a principal note and is sounded at the same time as the principal note, adding dissonance to a harmony.

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  • The time taken for this ornamental tone is taken from that of the melody tone The appoggiatura was formerly classified into long appoggiatura and short appoggiatura_, but modern writers seem to consider the term "short appoggiatura" to be synonymous with acciaccatura[12], and to avoid confusion the word acciaccatura will be used in this sense, and defined under its own heading Footnote 12: In organ music the acciaccatura is still taken to mean that the embellishing tone and the melody tone are to be sounded together, the former being then instantly released, while the latter is held to its full time-value 74. —  Music Notation and Terminology
  • The acciaccatura (or short appoggiatura) is written like the appoggiatura except that it has a light stroke across its stem. —  Music Notation and Terminology
  • The appoggiatura is always accented, but the acciaccatura never is, the stress always falling on the melody tone. —  Music Notation and Terminology
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  • The following are the embellishments most commonly found: Trill (or shake), mordent, inverted mordent (or prall trill), turn (gruppetto), inverted turn, appoggiatura and acciaccatura. —  Music Notation and Terminology
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  1. Italian, from acciaccare, to crush.

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  1. Italian; literally, the effect of crushing, from acciaccare, bruise, crush, from acciare, mince, hash, from accia, an ax, from Latin ascia, an ax: see ax.
 

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/ɑttʃɑkkɑˈturɑ/
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