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Musical terms:
More on mordents
When playing a note that has a mordent sign, you have to play a note that doesn't actually appear on the page in front of you. So what about if that note requires an accidental? The term used to describe a note that is changed by a sharp, flat, or natural in this way is inflected.


Hopefully, this example will make it clear how this is achieved.

A lower mordent with an inflected note, the C♯.

Remember that the twiddly notes of a mordent take some of value from the note that they belong to. They are not played before the note is due in the way that, for example, and acciaccatura might be.

Quote of the day:
Sergei Rachmaninov: Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Fact:
A lot of timps!
Hector Berlioz called for sixteen timpani requiring ten timpanists in his Requiem work "Grannd Messe des Morts".

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