Definitions
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- noun music A
dissonant musicnote . Used inBaroque music as a decorative embellishment of a melodic note. The grace note is played as quickly as possible and takes no time from the melody note. The symbol for this grace note is a smaller quaver with a line through.
Etymologies
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Borrowing from Italian acciacatura.
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seanahan commented on the word acciacatura
Missing from most of the sources, but it's in Ninja.
July 29, 2007