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Meanings of grace note in English

Russian
форшлаг
Spanish
grace
Wikidata

Note meant to be played as one that quickly "slides" or "glides" to another note.

форшлаг

An embellishing note usually written in smaller size.

Synonyms
Examples for "appoggiatura"
Examples for "appoggiatura"
1
Three rules for the interpretation of the appoggiatura are commonly cited, viz.
Music Notation and Terminology
2
Klindworth employs a short appoggiatura, Kullak the long, in the second bar.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
3
He uses the transient shake in the third bar, instead of the appoggiatura which Klindworth prefers.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
4
For the turn (gruppetto) and the appoggiatura he recommended the great Italian singers as models.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2
5
The dizzy appoggiatura leaps in the last two bars set the seal of perfection upon this unique composition.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
Usage of grace note in English
1
A firsthand view of it would be a grace note few have attained.
Blood rites
2
It's a remarkable grace note on which to end.
Radio NZ
3
Every note was a grace note.
The Irish Times
4
Even his dodgy shoulder was hurting, a grace note added to the symphony of agony from his back.
The Long War
5
Then I discovered that there is a trill, a tiny grace note or yodel, at the end of his second note.
Wilderness Ways
6
He has defined himself by his feats in St Tiernach's, that old hollow of a ground which is the town's last grace note.
The Irish Times
7
I knew that air, those trills, those little runs, those grace notes.
Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day / 1905
8
Of course, with HTM involved, the new Chuck Taylor gets some grace notes.
Wired
9
Onstage, the grace notes come with audactious if typically understated flourishes.
The Irish Times
10
It's not that President Obama didn't hit grace notes for bolstering his platform.
Reuters
11
Grace noted that he was rather shaken, and felt vaguely disturbed.
The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
12
And grace notes of The Queen: national-institution acting and toehold in New Labour politicking.
The Guardian
13
The lines were wrong, and so were the grace notes.
Neverwhere
14
At the same time, sinister grace notes accompany Cromwell's triumph.
The Guardian
15
Some Spanish singers give a similar impression, through singing interminable grace notes beyond notation.
Musical Memories
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Old, faint scars marred his face, but only added further grace notes to his appearance.
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Translations for grace note
Spanish
grace