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What is an appoggiatura?

What is an appoggiatura? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) 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.
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For example, if the appoggiatura is written as an eighth-note, then the appoggiatura should take an eighth-note value from the main note.
First inversion of the submediant triad occurs primarily as a tonic chord with resolved or unresolved appoggiatura.
The appoggiatura is always accented, but the acciaccatura never is, the stress always falling on the melody tone.
If notes are written too close together, OMeR can confuse regular notes with appoggiatura.
Also, there are too many recurring tics, such as the ominous appoggiatura — C sounding over B-flat minor — with which the opera begins.
During the Renaissance and early Baroque, the appoggiatura was of moderate length, averaging one-third of the main note, and was more in the nature of a melodic than a harmonic ornament.

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