accent us (ak-sen'-tus) Lat. n

A tuning of the voice, intonation; accent. Applied specifically to one acciaccatura From the Italian (at-chak-ka-too'-ra) It. n. verb which means division of the Cantus Ecclesiastic us, to crush: this term applied to music to the part of the Catholic service read means that when the melody note is or chanted by the priest or his min is struck the note a semitone below it ters. To the accent us belong the col should be struck at the same time; lects; epistles and gospels, including as soon as they have been sounded the melodies to which the Pa ion is together the lower note is released sung in Holy Week; the lections and the melody note is held for its full prophecies and acts of the martyrs; time. The acciaccatura is po ible various forms of Intonation, Benediction, and Absolution, in the Liturgy; only on keyed instruments. It is writ single verses; exclamations and adten as a grace note with a little slant monitions of the a istants at the ing line through it stem, ference between its and the and the dif regular altar; and the prefaces. See also grace note is that the grace note is Accent us ecclesiastic i. played before the melody note, while accent us ecclesiastic i (ak-sen'-tus the acciaccatura is struck simultanee-kle-zT-as'-tl-si) Lat. ously with it. When used with a The melodic formulae for intoning chord this form of ornamentation is 29 10 acciaccatura accompaniment indicated by drawing a little slanting forming the chromatic, enharmonic, line through the notes forming the and harmonic scales. Formerly they chord, just below the note which takes applied to one note only, unle that the acciaccatura, thus: note was repeated consecutively, but /Written l now their influence continues through a measure and is ended by the bar. The signs originated with the round (b) and square B used during * the Middle Ages to distinl\-\) flat from guish Bgradually B natural. XLJ These became general signs for depre ing and raising notes, square B being written both t and \ and round B, b, but it was not until Its use in the original sense is no.v the latter part of the Eighteenth Cenconfined wholly to the organ, where tury that the present system of using it gives the effect of an accent to a accidentals became fixed. In early single note or chord; elsewhere it is music many of the accidentals were now employed as a synonym of short not noted. Formerly the sharps or appoggiatura. flats in the signature were also called accidental chords accidentals. Any doubtful note may Chords which contain one or more be marked by an accidental, notes that do not belong to that haraccidenti (at-chi-den'-te) It. n. mony found in the figuration as opaccidents (ak-se-dafi) Fr. n. posed to plain choral harmony. They Accidentals, may be caused either by anticipation, accolade (ak-ko-lad) Fr. n. one or more of the notes being put be- The lines or braces binding together fore the natural or expected place, or the various staves of music to show the parts that move together. by suspension,' the prolonging a tone adj. in one chord into a following chord. accompagnato (ak-kom-pan-ya-to) It.