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Appoggiatura (It., from appoggiare, ‘to lean’; Fr.: appoggiature; Ger.: Vorschlag).
When the appoggiatura ‘leans upon’ two tied notes, it normally takes the whole of
the time-value of the first of these to itself.
A species of grace note, indicated by a small note with its stem crossed through,
viz.,
The principal note retains its accent and almost all its time-value. The auxiliary
note is theoretically timeless; it is just ‘crushed’ in as quickly as possible before
the principal note is heard.
Sometimes two or more small notes are shown before the principal notes, and
then they generally amount to acciaccatura (being in most cases performed on the
‘crushed-in’, or timeless and accentless, principle), although they have no strokes
through their tails, and although the names double or triple appoggiatura are
often given them.
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Alison Latham, The Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press
2. (Fr.: coulé, flatté; Ger.: Schleifer). An ornament common in the Baroque period,
consisting of two short notes rising by step to the main note. It may be
indicated by a sign or by small notes (see Ex. 2), and is found as late as
Beethoven's String Quartet op. 135. On keyboard instruments, the first note may
be required to be sustained (Ex. 3).
3. The tubing that, extended telescopically, allows the trombone and slide trumpet
(see trumpet (2)) to lengthen their air column, filling the gaps between notes of
the harmonic series.