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grace note
noun
, Music.
- a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.
grace note
noun
- music a note printed in small type to indicate that it is melodically and harmonically nonessential
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Word History and Origins
Origin of grace note1
First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences
It is a wonderful thing that the conflict in Iraq can end of something of a grace note for our country.
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Then I discovered that there is a trill, a tiny grace note or yodel, at the end of his second note.
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A melancholy grace-note from the dog, a jolt, and I turned around, appalled.
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Also a short shake or transient grace-note struck immediately before the note it is intended to ornament.
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He whistled as Jacob had done before, but with another grace-note at the end.
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In the second bar a note which the editor had taken for an eighth-note was explained by the Composer as being a grace-note.
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