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grace note

noun

Music.
  1. a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.


grace note

noun

  1. music a note printed in small type to indicate that it is melodically and harmonically nonessential
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of grace note1

First recorded in 1815–25
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In a grace note, the actor plays himself as a young man, too, as though his older self is still stuck in his past.

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A truly insidious horror film might have found a way to use bloody humor as a nervous grace note to offset what’s tangibly distressing about our gnawing powerlessness.

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In a riskier but effective grace note, interspersed throughout are poetic, home-movie-fashioned interludes, scenes of the girls at play that suggest missed experiences.

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Winslet was adding grace notes to scenes of herself in “The Regime,” a dark satire created by Will Tracy, a writer and producer on “Succession,” that began airing on Max in early March.

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The tenderness flickering in Driver’s eyes is one of several grace notes in a performance that, being delivered entirely in Italian-accented English, could have been forgiven for having no grace notes at all.

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