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A melodic ornament in which a principal tone is rapidly alternated with the tone a half or full step below.
noun - a melodic embellishment
MORDENT - In music, a mordent is an ornament indicating that the note is to be played with a single rapid alternation with the note above or below. Like trills...
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| A melodic ornament in which a principal tone is rapidly alternated with the tone a half or full step below. |
| a rapid alternation of a note with the note immediately below or above it in the scale (sometimes further distinguished as ilower mordenti and iupper mordenti ). The term iinverted mordenti usually refers to the upper mordent. |
| A rapid alternation of a note with the note immediately below or above it in the scale (sometimes further distinguished as lower mordent and upper mordent). The term inverted mordent usually refers to the upper mordent. |
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In music, a mordent is an ornament indicating that the note is to be played with a single rapid alternation with the note above or below. Like trills, they can be chromatically modified by a small flat, sharp or natural accidental. The term entered English musical terminology at the beginning of the 19th century, from the German Mordent and its Italian etymon, mordente, both used in the 18th century to describe this musical figure. The word ultimately is derived from the Latin mordere (to bite).* The mordent is thought of as a rapid single alternation between an indicated note, the note above (the upper mordent) or below (the lower mordent) and the indicated note again. * The upper mordent is indicated by a short squiggle; the lower mordent is the same with a short vertical line through it: * Play As with the trill, the exact speed with which the mordent is performed will vary according to the tempo of the piece, but at a moderate tempo the above might be executed as follows: * Play The |