grace note

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grace note Meaning of "grace note"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size

Synonym(s)

appoggiatura

Usage(s):

  1. Completed in 1969 in the design idiom called Brutalism, it ran more than half the length of a city block with hardly a grace note or welcoming gesture.
  2. Composer Villa-Lobos cares not the flick of a grace note if some of his music sounds flimsy.
  3. The tricky grace note in the eighth bar of the drinking song from Traviata stops him every time; he pauses, squawks angrily, and switches to his favorite tune, Ciribiribin.
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