different between appoggiatura vs mordent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian appoggiatura, derived from appoggiare (“to lean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?p?.d??.?t??.?/

Noun

appoggiatura (plural appoggiaturas or appoggiature)

1. (music) 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.
   • 1992, New York Times, March 2

     The following Adagietto was like a long, melting appoggiatura composed of smaller dying falls and languid resolutions.

Translations

Italian

Etymology

appoggiare +? -tura

Noun

appoggiatura f (plural appoggiature)

1. appoggiatura
2. (theater) a strong emphasis in intonation on the key word of a joke

Portuguese

Noun

appoggiatura f (plural appoggiaturas or appoggiature)

1. Alternative form of apogiatura

English

Etymology

Italian mordente. Doublet of mordant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??(?)d?nt/
• Homophone: mordant

Noun

mordent (plural mordents)

1. (music) An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it.

Derived terms

• inverted mordent
• lower mordent
• upper mordent

Translations

See also

• mordant
• pralltriller

French

Verb

mordent

1. third-person plural present indicative of mordre
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of mordre

Anagrams

• dorment

Latin

Verb

mordent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of morde?