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  • noun Plural form of mordent.

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Examples

  • I said to her mother and her that if I were her regular teacher, I would lock up all her music, cover the keyboard with a handkerchief, and make her practice both hands at first slowly on nothing but passages, trills, mordents, etc., until the difficulty with the left hand was remedied; after that I am sure I could make a real clavier player out of her.

    Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1905

  • He also wrote a little work on the execution and employment of the various kinds of shakes, mordents, cadenzas, etc., according to the usage of the classical Italian school.

    Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Lahee, Henry C 1899

  • Thus, the brightness and permanence of colouring in their silk manufactures, are not produced by any secret mordents or process, but derived from a very nice experience of the climate, and certain concurrent circumstances.

    The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821

  • · Double signs and ornaments: Simple and double simile bars, double dotting, double flat and double sharp, mordents and turns, two types of grace notes, etc.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • · Double signs and ornaments: Simple and double simile bars, double dotting, double flat and double sharp, mordents and turns, two types of grace notes, etc.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • · Double signs and ornaments: Simple and double simile bars, double dotting, double flat and double sharp, mordents and turns, two types of grace notes, etc.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • · Double signs and ornaments: Simple and double simile bars, double dotting, double flat and double sharp, mordents and turns, two types of grace notes, etc.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • · Double signs and ornaments: Simple and double simile bars, double dotting, double flat and double sharp, mordents and turns, two types of grace notes, etc.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

  • It begins: Solomon inspiratus: It is not what his erudition might have suggested, but what love inspired him with in his last mordents, when his pure soul was hastening to break the chains of mortality, and drown itself in the ocean of God's immensity, and in the delights of eternity. [

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

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