grace note

grace note EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun Music. a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura. Liberaldictionary.com

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Origin of grace note First recorded in 1815–25 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for grace note Historical Examples of grace note

In the second bar a note which the editor had taken for an eighth-note was explained by the Composer as being a grace-note.

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British Dictionary definitions for grace note grace note noun music a note printed in small type to indicate that it is melodically and harmonically nonessential Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012