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Musical ornament using two quickly alternating tones
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mordent
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n. (context music English) An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it.
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In music, a mordent is an ornament indicating that the note is to be played with a single rapid alternation with the note above or below. Like trills , they can be chromatically modified by a small flat , sharp or natural accidental . The term entered English ...
Usage examples of mordent.
Its engine seemed to catch for a mordent, then died, but the torpedo was caught in a strange undersea limbo, neither diving nor surfacing, its engine occasionally sputtering.
His behavior did not become the lordof Mordent, master of the Gryphon Hill and Weathermayestates.