appoggiatura

noun
/əˌpɒ.d͡ʒəˈtʊɹ.ə/

Etymology

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

  1. borrowed from appoggiatura

Definitions

  1. A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for appoggiatura. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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