See also: Appoggiatura

In the Western tonal music, a appoggiatura is a melody ornament being used to delay the following note - principal note - on which one wants to insist. The appoggiatura takes the form of small a figure of note of which the duration must be withdrawn principal note. The term comes from the Italian verb appoggiare , which means to support.

the same word also indicates a foreign note with the harmony, and it is not a chance: indeed, generally, the appoggiatura in small note - or melody appoggiatura - also constitutes a foreign note - or harmonic appoggiatura - decorating the agreement on which it occurs.

  • a melody appoggiatura can be faded.

  • There exist two kinds of melody appoggiaturas, the long and the short . Both are usually attacked on the beginning of the time.

It is appropriate to note however, that since the 19th century, a practice developed which consists in withdrawing the duration of the appoggiatura of the value of the preceding note.

Long appoggiatura

A long appoggiatura is a small figure of note of given value - a white , a black , a eighth note, etc It can be simple or double.

  • Examples of long appoggiaturas:

Short appoggiatura

A short appoggiatura - or will acciacatura - is a small figure of barred note - generally, a eighth note - which is carried out very quickly. One very often affects to him the quarter of the value of the note which it precedes. The rules of interpretation are very flexible and there exist appoggiaturas of several notes placed more freely.

the appoggiatura as a melody ornament is hardly any more employed since the middle of the 19th century. When there is truly appoggiatura with the harmonic direction of the term, this one is simply noted with ordinary figures being integrated in the calculation of the values of each measurement. Being given that each melody appoggiatura - as besides any melody ornament - can be also written in ordinary values, it is allowed to wonder about the difference that there is between the two types of notation. Perhaps the notation baroque has the advantage of a greater flexibility in the execution of the noted ornaments such as they are, compared to their equivalent in modern notation - in ordinary figures. But especially, the notation baroque , by operating on paper a discrimination between the principal notes - represented by the ordinary figures -, and the secondary notes - represented by the small figures -, invites the reader/interprets to operate an ultimate melody analysis of the partition. In modern notation , on the other hand, all the figures having the same size, their relative importance compared to the tonal and harmonic context, is apparent, especially if one does not have the complete partition - the driver of orchestra. From the point of view of the listener, however, the musical result is not necessarily perceptible.

  • Example of short appoggiaturas:

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