/ˈnɑːxʃleɪɡə/, U.S. /ˈnɑkʃleɪɡə/.Nachschlagn.
/ˈnɑːxʃlɑːɡ/, U.S. /ˈnɑkˌʃlɑɡ//ˈnɑːxʃleɪɡə/, U.S. /ˈnɑkʃleɪɡə/. Music.
A grace note, the value of which is deducted from the value of the preceding note. Cf. appoggiatura n.Other similar ornaments are sometimes also given this name.
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appoggiatura1753
leaning-note1811
warbler1875
Nachschlag1879
1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 44/1 The agrémens used in modern music..are the acciacatura, appoggiatura, arpeggio, mordent, nachschlag, shake or trill, slide, and turn.
1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 441/2 In the works of the great masters the Nachschlag, though of very frequent occurrence, is almost invariably written out in notes of ordinary size.
1915 A. Dolmetsch Interpret. Mus. of 17th & 18th Cent. iv. 255 C. Ph. E. Bach incidentally mentions the Nachschlag, but only to condemn it.
1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 476/1 The ornamenting notes constitute a melodic movement away from the preceding note, and are to be performed as a part of this... Thus the Nachschlag is the exact opposite of the appoggiatura.
1960 E. Bodky Interpretation Bach's Keyboard Wks. v. 180 In bar 20 this version leads to ugly parallel fifths, which Landshoff tries to avoid by changing the short appoggiaturas of bars 19 and 20 into Nachschläge.
1979 Early Music 7 40/1 When a dotted note is followed by a Nachschlag-type ornament (such as a written-out suffix after a trill).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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