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mordent

or ǰ·岹Գ

[ mawr-dnt ]

noun

Music.
  1. a melodic embellishment consisting of a rapid alternation of a principal tone with the tone a half or a whole step below it, called single or short when the auxiliary tone occurs once and double or long when this occurs twice or more.


mordent

/ ˈɔːəԳ /

noun

  1. music a melodic ornament consisting of the rapid alternation of a note with a note one degree lower than it Also calledlower mordent
“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
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mordent1

1800–10; < German < Italian mordente biting < Latin mordent-, stem of ǰŧԲ, present participle of ǰŧ to bite; -ent
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mordent1

C19: from German, from Italian mordente, from mordere to bite
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Example Sentences

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They may take a mordent pleasure in installing Dr Eilidh Whiteford - who, as a member of the previous committee, was at the centre of a memorable and nasty spat with the previous chair, Labour's Ian Davidson.

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Fingers, position of, 6. the other, 16. fourth and fifth, 16. weak, 18. broad-tipped, 20. needed to play a mordent, 28.

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Mordent, fingers needed to play a, 28. accenting a, in a sonata, 70.

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Accenting a Mordent in a Sonata How should one play and accent the mordent occurring in the forty-seventh measure of the first movement—allegro di molto—of Beethoven's Sonata Pathétique, Opus 13?

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The mordent must be played fast enough to preserve the rhythmic integrity of the melody-note.

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