English Dictionary

grace note

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡɹeɪs nəʊt/

名詞

比喩的用法

(music) A musical note, indicated on a score in smaller type with or without a slash through it, played to ornament the melody rather than as part of it. Its note value does not count as part of the total time value of the measure it appears in.

日本語の意味

音楽用語。主要な旋律を装飾するために、通常の音よりも小さく記され、場合によっては斜線が引かれる音符。この音符の音価は該当小節の合計拍子にカウントされない

The violinist added a delicate grace note just before the cadence, enhancing the emotional impact.

ヴァイオリニストはカデンツァの直前に繊細な装飾音符を加え、その表現力を高めた。

意味（1）

(music) A musical note, indicated on a score in smaller type with or without a slash through it, played to ornament the melody rather than as part of it. Its note value does not count as part of the total time value of the measure it appears in.

There is a manner of gracing the notes or accents in reading, as in singing, but which is always at pleasure. This grace note in music is called appoggiatura, that is, supporter, insinuator. As the quantities of these little notes in music are always taken out of the next note that follows, so it is in speech. Instead of a plain acute accent, thus /, we may use, which corresponds exactly with the small musical grace note, a little circumflex grave-accute, thus ⎝; or acute-grave, thus ⎞; …

意味（2）

(figuratively) Something that decorates, embellishes, or ornaments; a finishing touch.

These concerns, often given mythic expression, explore the common human element in diverse experience: the poet [Rita Dove] touches the grace notes of famous and unknown lives, past and present.

grace notes （ plural ）