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mordent
[ mawr-dnt ]
noun
- 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
- music a melodic ornament consisting of the rapid alternation of a note with a note one degree lower than it Also calledlower mordent
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of mordent1
Example Sentences
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.
Fingers, position of, 6. the other, 16. fourth and fifth, 16. weak, 18. broad-tipped, 20. needed to play a mordent, 28.
Mordent, fingers needed to play a, 28. accenting a, in a sonata, 70.
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?
The mordent must be played fast enough to preserve the rhythmic integrity of the melody-note.
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