mordent noun: A musical ornament typically made by playing a note, the note immediately above or below it, and the original note again in quick succession.
☰Thought of the Day
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you." - Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre, ch. 23.
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