ornamentation [awr-nuh-men-tey-shuhn, ‐muhn‐]  

ornamentation

  [awr-nuh-men-tey-shuhn, ‐muhn‐]

In music, the addition of notes for expressive and aesthetic purposes. For example, a long note may be ornamented by repetition or by alternation with a neighboring note (“trill”); a skip to a nonadjacent note can be filled in with the intervening notes; or the resolution of a dissonance (see consonance and dissonance), because of its inevitability, can be delayed.

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Ornamentation
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