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grace note

noun

, Music.
  1. a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.


grace note

noun

  1. music a note printed in small type to indicate that it is melodically and harmonically nonessential
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grace note1

First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences

Often her articles end with a grace note of quiet devastation, a cogent detail or observation that brings her subject into focus.

It is a wonderful thing that the conflict in Iraq can end of something of a grace note for our country.

Then I discovered that there is a trill, a tiny grace note or yodel, at the end of his second note.

A melancholy grace-note from the dog, a jolt, and I turned around, appalled.

Also a short shake or transient grace-note struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament.

He whistled as Jacob had done before, but with another grace-note at the end.

In the second bar a note which the editor had taken for an eighth-note was explained by the Composer as being a grace-note.

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