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| | Ornament (music) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | A grace note is a note written in smaller type, with or without a slash through it, to indicate that its ((music) the relative duration of a musical note) note value does note count as part of the total time value of the (How much there is of something that you can quantify) measure. |
 | | The mordent is thought of as a rapid single alternation between an indicated note, the note above (in the case of the upper mordent) or below (in the case of the lower or inverted mordent) the indicated note, and the indicated note again. |
 | | A lower unessential note may or may not be chromatically raised (that is, with a natural, a sharp, or even a double sharp) to make it just one semitone lower than the principal note. |
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