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Word: mordent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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England's Piano Sonata, like the Crawford piece, was in two movements, a scheme more composers might well experiment with. England unified each movement through consistent application of one device: the first movement, rather rhapsodic in character, exploited the ornament known as the inverted double mordent; the second, clearly structured, utilized a repeated-note pattern...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Piston Seminar Concert | 5/7/1957 | See Source »

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