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Ornament

September 27, 2022

An apoggiatura is a specific type of musical ornament or embellishment used in music notation. It is a non-chord tone, also known as a "grace note," that is played quickly before a main note of the melody. The apoggiatura is characterized by its dissonant nature, as it creates tension before resolving to the main note. A trill is a musical ornament or embellishment that involves rapidly alternating between two adjacent notes. Turn is a type of ornament or embellishment that adds a decorative flourish to a note. It involves the rapid alternation of the main note with its neighboring notes. A mordent is a musical ornament or embellishment that involves a rapid alternation between the main note and the note above it (upper mordent) or the note below it (lower mordent). The mordent is notated using a specific symbol above the note in the sheet music. Arpeggiation, also known as arpeggio, is a technique in music where the notes of a chord are played or sung in a rapid succession, rather than simultaneously. Instead of playing all the notes of the chord together, they are played one after the other, usually from the lowest to the highest note, or vice versa.

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