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Appoggiatura

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(n.) A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; - generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Appoggiatura'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/appoggiatura.html. 1828.
 
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