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Meanings of grace notes in English

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

        форшлаг
        Synonyms
        Examples for "grace note"
        Examples for "grace note"
        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
        Usage of grace notes in English
        1
        I knew that air, those trills, those little runs, those grace notes.
        Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day / 1905
        2
        Of course, with HTM involved, the new Chuck Taylor gets some grace notes.
        Wired
        3
        Onstage, the grace notes come with audactious if typically understated flourishes.
        The Irish Times
        4
        It's not that President Obama didn't hit grace notes for bolstering his platform.
        Reuters
        5
        And grace notes of The Queen: national-institution acting and toehold in New Labour politicking.
        The Guardian
        6
        The lines were wrong, and so were the grace notes.
        Neverwhere
        7
        At the same time, sinister grace notes accompany Cromwell's triumph.
        The Guardian
        8
        Some Spanish singers give a similar impression, through singing interminable grace notes beyond notation.
        Musical Memories
        9
        Old, faint scars marred his face, but only added further grace notes to his appearance.
        Changes
        10
        The president hit all the political grace notes.
        Ebony
        11
        Zoe's voice skipping upward in grace notes.
        Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
        12
        There were also sculptures, standing here and there like grace notes, by Moore and Dali and Picasso.
        Hex and the city
        13
        Turner is deeply sympathetic as the religious matriarch even while providing subtle comic grace notes to the role.
        Reuters
        14
        Mixing poetic voiceover and gorgeous cinematography, time and again the frame fills with extraordinary observations and grace notes.
        The Guardian
        15
        Sobbing organ notes, whimpering grace notes.
        A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
        16
        Trills, twitterings, grace notes, little runs upward ending in the air-surely it was a boy's heart, and not unhappy.
        Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day / 1905
        Translations for grace notes
        Spanish
        grace