💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Grace note"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| acciaccaturanoun | (music) A short grace note (theoretically taking no time at all), occurring on the beat occupied by the main note to which it is prefixed, one scale-step higher or lower than that main note. (Sometimes equivalent, therefore, to a short appoggiatura, but in Baroque music interpreted differently and more strictly.) Written as a note lighter in appearance, typically a quaver (eighth note), with an oblique stroke through the stem. |
| appoggiaturanoun | (music) A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows. |
| ghost notenoun | (music) A musical note with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch when played, sometimes represented by an X in musical notation. |
| passing notenoun | (music) A smaller note marking a tone introduced between two others, to effect a smooth passage from the one to the other, but forming no essential part of the harmony. |
| note valuenoun | (music) A musical notation that indicates the relative duration of a note, using the color or shape of the note head, the presence or absence of a stem, and the presence of flags. |
| holding notenoun | (archaic, music) A note sustained in one part, or by one instrument, while the others change. |
| notationnoun | (uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities. |
| notenoun | A symbol or annotation. |
| ornamentationnoun | Decoration, adornment or embellishment. |
| accent marknoun | (linguistics, strictly) A diacritical mark or character used in writing to indicate the place of stress (spoken accent), or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked (such as long vowel versus short vowel). |
| white notenoun | (music) Any of the notes (the naturals) produced by the white keys on a piano or similar keyed instrument. |
| natural | Existing in nature. |
| accentnoun | (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect. |
| ornamentnoun | An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns. |
| restnoun | (uncountable, of a person or animal) Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. |
| heart notenoun | (perfumery) Synonym of middle note. |
| nachschlagnoun | (music) A kind of ornament consisting of one or two additional notes after a note or trill. |
| abbreviationnoun | (linguistics) A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase used to represent the whole, using omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @. |
| pointnoun | A small dot or mark. |
| music notationnoun | Synonym of musical notation. |
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