Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, pertaining to or emphasizing slight variations in rhythm for the sake of dynamic expression: as, agogic accent.
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- noun music an
accent thataccentuates a note byextending it slightly beyond its normal time value
Etymologies
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Examples
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With Chopin, new dynamic and agogic accents are rather dangerous, at least to the peace of mind of worshippers of the Chopin fetish.
Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890
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He does not use it at the repetition, but throughout both dynamic and agogic accents are unsparingly used, and the study seems to resound with the sullen booming of a park of artillery.
Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890
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Schumann's ritardandi and agogic accents -- he employs twelve hemiolas or metric shifts in No. 5 -- makes her performance a keeper, especially given the lucidity of her piano tone, courtesy of engineer Ludger Boeckenhoff, and the SACD's clarity.
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The sheer volume of Schuricht's temperament -- the agogic tugs and stretches -- makes this Beethoven a force with which to reckon.
she commented on the word agogic
Obsolete: of or about the making of wax models
July 9, 2008
shevek commented on the word agogic
Agogic accents in music are those created by the properties of the melody, as opposed to the rhythm or an artificial accent marking.
September 8, 2008