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Appoggiature vs Appoggiatura - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between appoggiature and appoggiatura

is that appoggiature is irregular plural of appoggiatura while appoggiatura is a type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows.

appoggiature

English

Noun

(head)
  • (appoggiatura)
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    appoggiatura

    English

    (wikipedia appoggiatura)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows.
  • * "The following Adagietto was like a long, melting appoggiatura composed of smaller dying falls and languid resolutions." — New York Times , March 2, 1992

    • appoggiatura

    English

    (wikipedia appoggiatura)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows.
  • * "The following Adagietto was like a long, melting appoggiatura composed of smaller dying falls and languid resolutions." — New York Times , March 2, 1992