How To Use Acciaccatura In A Sentence
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Explanation, study, application and dialogues on some other kinds of systems and concepts for executing acciaccaturas.
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The opening melodic phrase is repeated throughout the piece, decorated sometimes by acciaccaturas, trills, or flowing semiquavers.
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Angela, the Macquarie pronunciation of acciaccatura is just one of many illiterate and confused attempts to transfer the Italian term into English.
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Repeated notes can sound awkward now, and the acciaccaturas of Variation 9 emerge as softened.
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It does not, for example, give anything other than an anglicised pronunciation for acciaccatura.
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To us, these were acciaccatura, appoggiatura, and mordents.
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Those I interpret as acciaccaturas are written as simultaneously struck full-length notes - Scarlatti often wrote them as such when they formed part of chords.
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The appoggiatura was formerly classified into _long appoggiatura_ and _short appoggiatura_, but modern writers seem to consider the term "short appoggiatura" to be synonymous with acciaccatura [12], and to avoid confusion the word _acciaccatura_ will be used in this sense, and defined under its own heading.
Music Notation and Terminology
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My tuppence worth is that I should like dictionaries to reflect both kinds of use IN THIS CASE - it's handy to know how a word is pronounced in the language from which it is borrowed, in a transparent case of highly specific borrowing such as 'acciaccatura'.
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Applying this principle to acciaccatura, we would first want a dictionary to give a pronunciation considered unexceptionable by those who know musical terms well and know their Italian pronunciations; and then, if there is room and if the dictionary aims to be comprehensively descriptive, we want it to note that there are alternatives that stray from the Italian original.
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Here one finds both appoggiatura style grace notes without the slash and acciaccatura style grace notes with the slash; clear evidence of the changes that were occurring around the mid-nineteenth century.
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On the other examples: I always say 'trayt' and never 'tray', and I have very often heard 'acciaccatura' pronounced the Macquarie way - but that's not the pronunciation given in my Collins English, which I shall post here if someone will point me to an idiot's guide to how to type using the IPA.
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His obsessive use of acciaccaturas, trills and mordents not only reflected the Spanish and Portuguese music of 18th Century that inspired him in his sonatas, but also enhanced the excitement and glory of his music.
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A third, subordinate motif is stated in bare octaves answered by bird-like pianissimo acciaccaturas in the treble (precursors of Bartók's nature sounds, perhaps?
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The original sources maintain some distinction between the lengths of appoggiaturas: whether those notated here as acciaccaturas are in reality semiquavers is unclear (surely they must often be realized as such).
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Numerous musical examples will illustrate these various applications and serve to highlight the range of the acciaccatura's sound effects.
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The following are the embellishments most commonly found: Trill (or shake), mordent, inverted mordent (or prall trill), turn (gruppetto), inverted turn, appoggiatura and acciaccatura.
Music Notation and Terminology
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The first section of "Eri tu" is rendered in a splendidly firm, strong-lined legato, the words crystal-clear; it comes to an end with a decrescendo and portamento down from the top F on "guisa," a most expressive turn and acciaccatura on "primo," and a fermata at the end of the phrase.
Conrad L. Osborne: Best Opera Critic Ever
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The acciaccatura is distinguished by a light diagonal line through note hook.
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Noetica, that's a fairly widespread pronunciation of acciaccatura.
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The composer suggests that one of the middle notes could be taken by the nose but the acciaccatura that proceeds it would preclude this.
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The first section of "Eri tu" is rendered in a splendidly firm, strong-lined legato, the words crystal-clear; it comes to an end with a decrescendo and portamento down from the top F on "guisa," a most expressive turn and acciaccatura on "primo," and a fermata at the end of the phrase.
Conrad L. Osborne: Best Opera Critic Ever
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The prevalence of the piccolo sonority, acciaccaturas, repeated accompanimental quavers, simple tonic-dominant bassline and the use of percussion all signify alla turca.
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The purging of the sinful soul with hyssop, depicted by acciaccaturas and augmented seconds, leads into a lively, haunting dance as the broken bones of the text ` daunce awaie their sadness’.
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On the Aussie front, I have the Australian Oxford, which seems to take a good approach; unfortunately it doesn't include acciaccatura.
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The _acciaccatura_ (or short appoggiatura) is written like the appoggiatura except that it has a light stroke across its stem.
Music Notation and Terminology
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Both reflect the traditional meanings of acciaccatura and appogiatura, and both insert insert a slur from the first grace note to the main note.
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In this section, the string parts are filled with acciaccaturas, whereas the brass section and the timpani are rampant and adrenaline-pumping.
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In the second half of the first bar, the _acciaccatura_ was never intended by the composer to be actually sung as printed.
Style in Singing
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In the third movement, Haitink's lucid communication of the music's textural contrasts made it a joy to listen to, and the violins’ cheeky acciaccaturas tinkled wholeheartedly from their instruments; the finale was brisk, with almost maniacal handfuls of semiquavers, and the trumpets were on top form.
