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  2. Trill (music) - Wikipedia

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    A cadential trill is a trill associated with each cadence. A groppo or gruppo is a specific type of cadential trill which alternates with the auxiliary note directly above it and ends with a musical turn as additional ornamentation. [3] [4] A trill provides rhythmic interest, melodic interest, and—through dissonance—harmonic interest. [5]

  3. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...

  4. List of ornaments - Wikipedia

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    Generally indicated by a trill sign (jagged line) with a descending line at the beginning. Accento (pl. accenti) Italian, a popular vocal ornament, used in the late Renaissance and early Baroque; Lodovico Zacconi and Giovanni Battista Bovicelli, Giulio Caccini was a big proponent of its use. Consists of a dotted figure used to fill in or expand ...

  5. Ornament (music) - Wikipedia

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    Extreme example of ornamentation as a fioritura from Chopin's Nocturne in D ♭ major. In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity ...

  6. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    A jazz term describing a trill between one note and its minor third; or, with brass instruments, between a note and its next overblown harmonic sharp A symbol (♯) that raises the pitch of the note by a semitone; also an adjective to describe a singer or musician performing a note in which the intonation is somewhat too high in pitch short accent

  7. File:Baroque Trill Instructions.svg - Wikipedia

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    Copy the source code to "Baroque Trill Instructions.mscx" and use Constantia (available on Windows Vista and newer) or another serif typeface, as Source Serif Pro. Export to PDF, convert to SVG and optimize it to get the final SVG version.

  8. Mordent - Wikipedia

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    The precise meaning of mordent has changed over the years. In the Baroque period, a mordent was a lower mordent and an upper mordent was a pralltriller or schneller.In the 19th century, however, the name mordent was generally applied to what is now called the upper mordent, and the lower mordent became known as an inverted mordent.

  9. Slide (musical ornament) - Wikipedia

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    The slide (Schleifer in German, Coulé in French, Superjectio in Latin) [1] is a musical ornament often found in baroque musical works, but used during many different periods. [1] It instructs the performer to begin two or three scale steps below the marked note and "slide" upward—that is, move stepwise diatonically between the initial and ...