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grace note

NOUN
  1. an embellishing note usually written in smaller size

How To Use grace note In A Sentence

  • The arrows indicate the beginning of the grace note figure and the placement of each note in the triplet figure for the left hand.
  • Still, it was essentially agreeable entertainment with a wacky sense of humour leavened by slightly sobering grace notes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Both reflect the traditional meanings of acciaccatura and appogiatura, and both insert insert a slur from the first grace note to the main note.
  • The opening takes a simple so-la-ti from the scale and distends the first note into another octave (I'm ignoring the grace note, which doesn't always appear in other statements of the theme): The illegitimate nephew of Napoleon
  • One separates from the throng hovers awhile on the edge shudders, hesitates, realizes it is alone, a grace note, composes a radical new choreography darts and dives to its own dance that complements, defies and defines solo and ensemble, both we and me. Contretemps - French Word-A-Day
  • The first subphrase is a modified inversion of the first measure of the Mother's theme, motives a and b and the first note of motive c, excluding the anacrusis but including the grace note.
  • Still, it was essentially agreeable entertainment with a wacky sense of humour leavened by slightly sobering grace notes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Branches of viburnum, holly, and barberry offer architectural grace notes and still other means for signaling the season.
  • Lowdown: The occult is a grace note in this cynical whodunit, juicy with periodic detail. March 2007
  • There was even the grace note of a suggested signature, a simple capital D. THE SERPENT'S MARK
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