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What is a mordent?

What is a mordent? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it.
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Running over the leaves he came to the illustrations of the mordent.
Never was there such gilding of the lily, such painstaking practice of trill and mordent.
When executing the mordent, is not the use of three fingers preferable to two?
The last note of the mordent should be accented in this case.
And he tightened his arms round her, happy once more for a mordent in this environment of a perfect love.
The selection of the fingers for the execution of a mordent depends always upon the preceding notes or keys which lead up to it.

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