Ornament vs Appoggiatura - What's the difference?
ornament | appoggiatura |
(senseid) An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
* Tennyson
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(music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate or "ornament" that line.
(senseid) To decorate.
(senseid) To add to.
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
As nouns the difference between ornament and appoggiatura
is that ornament is (senseid) an element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns 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.As a verb ornament
is (senseid) to decorate.ornament
English
Noun
(en noun)- Like that long-buried body of the king / Found lying with his urns and ornaments .
- I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use.
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Verb
(en verb)- We will ornament the windows with trim to make the room seem brighter.
- The editor ornamented his plain writing, making it fancier but less clear.
