Appoggiatura

The appoggiatura was formerly classified into _long appoggiatura_ and _short appoggiatura_, but modern writers seem to consider the term "short appoggiatura" to be synonymous with acciaccatura [12], and to avoid confusion the word _acciaccatura_ will be used in this sense, and defined under its own heading. ❋ Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1928)

Participants identified 20 tear-triggering passages, and when Dr. Sloboda analyzed their properties, a trend emerged: 18 contained a musical device called an "appoggiatura." ❋ Michaeleen Doucleff (2012)

An appoggiatura is a type of ornamental note that clashes with the melody just enough to create a dissonant sound. ❋ Michaeleen Doucleff (2012)

Link lies and little deaths special presentation: "appoggiatura" by jeff vandermeer updated ❋ Jlundberg (2007)

The turns of music consist of the appoggiatura which is the principal note, or that on which the turn is made, together with the note above and the semi-tone below, the note above being sounded first, the principal note next and the semi-tone below, last, the three being performed sticatoly, or very quickly. ❋ Robert L. Taylor (N/A)

The winning words in recent competitions have included: pococurante; autochthonous; appoggiatura; ursprache; serrefine; guerdon; Laodicean. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

Lors des championnats les plus récents, les mots qui ont permis aux gagnants de remporter la victoire ont été pococurante, autochthonous, appoggiatura, ursprache, serrefine, guerdon et Laodicean. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

It's called an appoggiatura. (though I've seen it written with only one "g") appoggiatura n. ❋ Unknown (2009)

On the word "Virgo," the altos sing a dissonant appoggiatura G-sharp. ❋ Bls (2009)

The California eighth grader won in the 19th round by correctly spelling the word appoggiatura. ❋ Unknown (2005)

HILL: The word -- there they are -- the word this evening is appoggiatura. ❋ Unknown (2005)

That winning word, appoggiatura, it means a melodic tone. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Not only singers should be aware of the difference between a suspension, which has a purely musical role, and an appoggiatura, whose role is emotional and declamatory, stressing the pathos of two-syllable words. ❋ Brendel, Alfred (1985)

G sharp being a suspension or appoggiatura resolved upwards on to A while the D sharp (more properly E flat) is explained by the melody of the violoncelli, which, instead of moving at once to D, pass through a step of a semitone. ❋ George Ainslie Hight (N/A)

Russian was as near Chinese or Hebrew as the Slavic tongue: to argue vainly with La Menschikov, the soprano, who, to Ivan's unbounded disgust, used every vocal trick invented by the melodramatic Italians, from a revolting _tremolo_, and a barefaced _falsetto_ to an incorrigible persistence in the _appoggiatura_, an affectation peculiarly unadapted to Ivan's rich, strong style. ❋ Margaret Horton Potter (N/A)

The _acciaccatura_ (or short appoggiatura) is written like the appoggiatura except that it has a light stroke across its stem. ❋ Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1928)

Three rules for the interpretation of the appoggiatura are commonly cited, viz.: ❋ Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1928)

He [spelled] [the word] "appoggiatura", a [musical] term, correctly. ❋ TechnobladeNeverDies (2020)