Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A trill consisting of alternation between a written note and the note immediately above it.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The German name for the inverted mordent 01 passing trill (which see, under
trill ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Music) A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the
inverted mordente .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[German : prallen, to rebound (alteration of Middle High German prellen) + Triller, trill (from Italian trillo, from trillare, to trill, probably of imitative origin).]
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Examples
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The American College Dictionary defines a pralltriller as "an inverted mordent."
Mordents & Pralltrillers Kauffmann, Stanley 1964
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Stanley Kauffmann in his review of Stephen Becker's Marshall Field III calls in question the author's "expertise in the arts" by citing a statement of Mr. Becker on Field's interest in music: "He may not have known a mordant from a pralltriller."
Letters Babitz, Sol 1964
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