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List of ornaments
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Ornaments are a frequent embellishment to music. Sometimes different symbols represent the
same ornament, or vice versa. Different ornament names can refer to an ornament from a specific
area or time period. Understanding these ornaments is important for historically informed
performance and understanding the subtleties of different types of music. This list is intended to
give basic information on ornaments, with description and illustrations where possible.

Contents
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Notes · External links

A
Accent can refer to any stressed note, however it was used to indicate an ornament until the
18th century. In German Baroque music it occurs in J. S. Bach's ornament tables as a stressed
appoggiatura, indicated by a half circle or "C" in front of a note. This ornament was continued
in French Baroque ornament tables.[1][2]
Accent und Trillo, German, used mainly by Bach, a trill prepared by an accented note.
Generally indicated by a trill sign (jagged line) with a descending line at the beginning.
Accento (pl. accenti) Italian, extremely popular vocal ornament, used in the late Renaissance
and early Baroque; Lodovico Zacconi and Giovanni Battista Bovicelli, Giulio Caccini was a
big proponent of its use. Consists of a dotted figure used to fill in or expand an interval or
connect two longer notes. Generally improvised or written out literally.[3]
Appoggiatura in Italian, in French appoggiature and German Vorschlag. An accented
dissonant note, followed by a consonant resolution, generally by step downward. Very
common in recitative, particularly in Baroque and Classical music. May be notated or
improvised.
Accentuirte Brechung German, a broken chord with an added passing tone. Used by Bach,
described by Marpurg and Kirnberger, similar to the French coulé. Sometimes indicated by a
slash between two noteheads.[4]
Acciaccatura In Italian; French - pincé étouffé; German - Zusammenschlag.
Andolan
Arpeggio

B
bellogath

Bebung

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C
Cambiata
Changing tone
Tonality

E
Echappée

F
Fall: Generally a Jazz ornament meaning to play a note and then a random selection of notes
below, descending in pitch.
Finger vibrato

G
Gamak: Means "ornamented note", from Sanskrit. Gamaks involve the variation of pitch of a
note, using heavy forceful oscillations between adjacent and distant notes.
Glissando: A glide from one pitch to another.
Gruppetto: A trill or turn.
Grace note: Music notation used to denote several kinds of musical ornaments, usually an
appoggiatura or an acciaccatura, depending on interpretation..

L
Legato

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Meend: A glide from one note to another in Hindustani music.

Mordent: Ornament indicating that the note is to be played with a single rapid alternation with
the note above or below.

N
Neighbor group

P
Portamento
Pralltriller
Pull-off

R
Ribattuta di gola: Trill on a long-short dotted rhythm accelerating to end on either a tremolo
or a regular trill.
Rubato: To 'rob' part of the duration from one note and give it to another.

S
Shalltriller
Slide

T
Tremolo
Trill German - Triller, Italian - trillo, Spanish - trinado, a rapid alternation in pitch, generally
from a main pitch and one a step or half-step above or below it. There can be
differently-named variations within this general type.[5]
Turn

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UGGATO

V
Vibrato Italian, a fluctuation in pitch, volume, or both, generally applied to vocal music.
Later used for left-hand technique on bowed strings, and with breath vibrato on wind
instruments. It is either used constantly or used as an ornament, depending on repertoire.
When used as an ornament, it is generally improvised, although some 17th-century English
and French sources indicate a dot over a note should be used. Giuseppe Tartini discussed it as
one of the four Graces. There are many terms which can be understood to refer to what is now
called vibrato. It is believed that vibrato has been used in European music since medieval
times, and went through several cycles of popularity.[2]

W
Warble. A distinctive ornament of some Native American flutes, particularly traditional
flutes, that is created by steady breath pressure on the fundamental note of the instrument. A
phase shift occurs between different harmonics of the note, an effect that can be observed on a
spectrograph of the sound of a warbling flute.

References
If a full citation is not given, no author was given for the Grove article.

Kenneth Kreitner; Louis Jambou; Desmond Hunter; Stewart A. Carter; Peterwalls; Kah-Ming
Ng; David Schulenberg; Clive Brown. "Ornaments". In L. Root, Deane. Grove Music Online.
Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
Matthias Thiemel "Accent"
"Accento"
"Trill"
G. Moens-Haenen, "Vibrato"

Notes

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1. Grove, Ornament: 8 v a, Accent

2. Grove, Vibrato
3. Grove: Accento, Ornament 1, 4, 8
4. Grove, "Accentuirte Brechung", "Ornaments, §8(v): German baroque: The later 17th and early 18th
centuries (g) Other ornaments".
5. Trill

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