Table of Musical Ornaments

[Eng.] Ornaments [Fr.] agrments [Ger.] Verzierungen [It.] fiorette [Sp.] Adorno
or broderies or fioriture
or abbellimento

Name of Ornament Notation Effect of Ornament

[Eng] Short Appoggiatura Acciaccatura Acciaccatura
[Eng] Crushed note Acciaccatura
OR
[Fr.] Pinc touff
[Ger.] Kurzer Vorschlag or
Zusammenschlag OR
[It.] acciaccatura

[Eng] Appoggiatura Appoggiatura Appoggiatura

[Fr.] ports de voix or
notes d' agrment
[Ger.] langer Vorschlge
[It.] appoggiature
Appoggiatura Appoggiatura
 Appoggiatura Appoggiatura

Appoggiatura Appoggiatura

[Eng] Double Appoggiatura or Double Appoggiatura Double Appoggiatura

Slide

[Ger.] Anschlag
Schleifer
Schneller
Double Appoggiatura Double Appoggiatura

Double Appoggiatura Double Appoggiatura

[Eng] Unaccented Unaccented Appoggiatura Unaccented Appoggiatura
Appoggiatura

[Ger.] Nachschlag
Nachschleifer
Unaccented Appoggiatura Unaccented Appoggiatura

[Eng] Arpeggio
[Fr.] arpgement
[Ger.] Brechung
or Arpeggio
[It.] arpeggio

[Eng] Glissando
[Fr.] glissement
Play F then quickly finger through chromatic scale to E while
[Ger.] Glissando
continuing to play.
[It.] glissando
[Sp.] glissando
[Eng] Grace Note Grace notes are a general
[Fr.] petites notes categorization of Appoggiaturas
which can occur before, after, or
[Ger.] kurz Vorschlge during a musical motif (small
[It.] appoggiature phrase).

[Eng] Mordent Mordent Mordent

[Fr.] mordant or pinc
[Ger.] Pralltriller
or Mordent
[It.] mordente
Pralltriller Pralltriller

Inverted Mordent Inverted Mordent

[Eng] Trill Trill - Begin on Principal Trill - Begin on Principal

[Fr.] tremblement
[Ger.] Triller
[It.] trillo
 Trill - Begin on Auxiliary Trill - Begin on Auxiliary

Trill - With After-beat Trill - With After-beat

Trill - With flat sign Trill - With flat sign

Trill - With sharp sign Trill - With sharp sign

 Trill on Lower Auxiliary Trill on Lower Auxiliary

Trill on Upper Auxiliary Trill on Upper Auxiliary

Quintuplet Trill Quintuplet Trill

[Eng] Chain of Trills Chain of Trills Chain of Trills

[Ger.] Trillerkette
[It.] Catena di trilli
 Tremelo is trilling between two
notes that are not adjacent,
[Eng] Tremolo usually indicated as three thick
[Fr.] trmolo lines between the two notes.
[Ger.] Tremolo
[It.] tremolo

[Eng] Turn Turn Turn

[Fr.] bris or Turn with Nachtschlag Group Turn with Nachtschlag Group
groupe or
doubl
[Ger.] Doppelschlag
[It.] gruppetto

Inverted Turn Inverted Turn

Quintuplet Turn Quintuplet Turn