Klarinet Archive - Posting 000586.txt from 2000/07

From: Lacy Schroeder <LacyS@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] acciaccatura (RE: klarinet Digest 17 Jul 2000 20:15:00 -
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:13:26 -0400

Isn't acciacciatura a frequently used device in harpsichord music, to create
a "strummed", guitar effect?

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From: Doug Sears [mailto:dsears@-----.net]
Subject: [kl] acciaccatura (RE: klarinet Digest 17 Jul 2000 20:15:00
-0000 Issue 2406)

>I thought that the slashed "grace note" was called an acciacatura.
>
>Keith Bowen

I thought so, too, but here's what Gardner Read has to say in _Music
Notation_: "During the nineteenth century the term _appoggiatura_ was
unfortunately confused with the term _acciaccatura_ (from the Italian verb
_acciaccare_, meaning "to crush"). The _acciaccatura_ is no ornament at all,
but a manner of playing, then releasing part of, a chord in keyboard music."
My old Harvard Dictionary of Music confirms that "acciaccatura" is erroneous
when applied to grace notes, but I think everybody would know what you meant
(let's not get into an argument^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H discussion of whether
dictionaries should describe or prescribe).

--Doug
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Doug Sears dsears@-----.org/~dsears

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