Dictionary

appoggiatura en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /əˌpɒ.d͡ʒəˈtʊɹ.ə/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian appoggiatura, derived from appoggiare (“to lean”).

Meanings

1. A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows.
   • The following Adagietto was like a long, melting appoggiatura composed of smaller dying falls and languid resolutions. 1992 March 2, New York Times:

Forms

Deriveds

long appoggiatura · short appoggiatura

Translations (7)

af appoggiatura (a type of musical ornament which creates a suspension) · gl apoiatura (a type of musical ornament which creates a suspension) · el επέρειση (a type of musical ornament which creates a suspension) · el αποτζιατούρα (a type of musical ornament which creates a suspension) · pt appoggiatura (a type of musical ornament which creates a suspension) · fr appoggiature (a type of musical ornament which creates a suspension) · pt apogiatura (a type of musical ornament which creates a suspension)