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mordent
noun[ C ]
music specializeduk /ˈmɔː.dənt/ us /ˈmɔːr.dənt/
the single fast playing of a main note and the note below it, one after the other, or the effect that doing this produces:
In bar 18, there is a mordent in the harpsichord part.
This notated music uses some of the most-used classical ornaments, such as trills and mordents.
The Prelude doesn't completely flow, and we don't always hear the lower note of its characteristic mordents.
A succession of long notes is strung together by unexpected mordents.
The modern terms upper and lower mordent are sometimes used, rather than mordent and inverted mordent.
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