appoggiatura

appoggiatura has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. A passing tone preceding an essential tone, and borrowing the time it occupies from that; a short auxiliary or grace note one degree above or below the principal note unless it be of the same harmony; -- generally indicated by a note of smaller size, as in the illustration above. It forms no essential part of the harmony.
• n.. an embellishing note usually written in smaller size