单词 | lower mordent |
释义 | > as lemmaslower mordent A musical ornament generally consisting of the rapid alternation of a particular note with the one immediately below or above it in the scale (sometimes differentiated as lower mordent and upper mordent respectively).The exact form of the ornament varies according to the style, period, and structure of the music. The term has been applied variously to the passing shake ( inverted mordent; cf. German Pralltriller), the acciaccatura ( abbreviated mordent), and the turn.Sometimes further distinguished according to the number of alternations, as short mordent (symbol ?), and long (or double) mordent (symbol ?). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [noun] > grace > specific spinger1659 backfall1676 acciaccatura1749 twiddle1774 beat1804 mordent1806 cadent1879 1806 J. W. Callcott Musical Gram. vi. 61 The Mordent, Beat, Slide, and Spring are peculiar to the Germans. 1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 153 The Mordente, or according to the Germans, the Spring, consists of two notes preceding the note to be graced; the first of which is the same as the principal, and the second, one note higher than the principal. 1845 J. Gwilt Music in Encycl. Metrop. V. 775/1 Mordente, a grace used by the Italian School, by turning upon the note without employing the note below. 1906 Daily Chron. 12 Nov. 3/4 The importance of the proper interpretation of the ‘upper mordant’ in Beethoven's sonatas. 1907 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) III. 259 The appropriateness of the term Mordent..is found in the suddenness with which the principal note is, as it were, attacked by the dissonant note and immediately released. Walther says its effect is ‘like cracking a nut with the teeth’. 1944 D. Tovey Chamber Music iii. 35 All Bach's arabesques (except the mere mordents and shakes) are essential to the melodic sense. 1976 Gramophone Dec. 1016/1 The second subject [is] held in a more or less strict tempo but flecked with fine, subliminally caught colours, the mordents now fluttering like spread acciaccaturas, now expressive, now snappingly exact. 1994 L. de Bernières Capt. Corelli's Mandolin lxv. 377 The grippingly beautiful mordants and grace-notes of the final phrase. < as lemmas |
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