mordent
mordent — 名詞
- mordentsingular
- mordentsplural
1. a tiny extra sound added to a tune: the player quickly flicks from a written not
波音
快速交替主音與下方鄰音的裝飾音
a tiny extra sound added to a tune: the player quickly flicks from a written note to the one right beneath it and back.
Gabriela played the mordent so quickly that the extra note was barely heard.
Gabriela 把波音彈得非常快，額外的那個音幾乎聽不到。
play a mordent: verb + noun object
Mei's piano teacher asked her to practise the mordent slowly before playing it fast.
Mei 的鋼琴老師要她先慢慢練習波音，再加快速度彈。
practise the mordent: learning an ornament
The violinist added a mordent to the first note of the old dance tune.
小提琴手在那首古老舞曲的第一個音上加了一個波音。
The composer wrote a mordent on the first note, and Sade played it gently.
作曲家在第一個音上寫了波音，Sade 則輕輕地彈出來。
write a mordent on a note
Nellie asked the teacher to play the mordent again so she could hear both notes.
Nellie 請老師再彈一次波音，好讓她聽清楚兩個音。
用法筆記
Countable noun, so it takes a or the, and the plural form mordents is used when several ornaments are listed together.