grace note
a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.
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How to use grace note in a sentence
Often her articles end with a grace note of quiet devastation, a cogent detail or observation that brings her subject into focus.
Joan Didion’s ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ shows a writer ahead of her time | Charles Arrowsmith | February 9, 2021 | Washington PostIt 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.
Wilderness Ways | William J LongA melancholy grace-note from the dog, a jolt, and I turned around, appalled.
In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. ChambersAlso 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.
The Garden of Eden | Max BrandIn the second bar a note which the editor had taken for an eighth-note was explained by the Composer as being a grace-note.
The Shadow World | Hamlin Garland
British Dictionary definitions for grace note
music a note printed in small type to indicate that it is melodically and harmonically nonessential
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