noun
an embellishing note usually written in smaller size
• Syn: ↑appoggiatura, ↑acciaccatura
• Hypernyms: ↑note, ↑musical note, ↑tone
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noun1. : a musical note constituting or being part of an ornament; especially : appoggiatura, acciaccatura
2. : something resembling or suggesting a grace note in forming a very small decorative unessential part of or addition to some large whole
the literary contributions made by the President's collaborators … merely added grace notes to compositions that were the President's own — New Yorker
the chanted songs … seem to have no real organic connection with the central theme but to be merely arbitrary and distracting grace notes — Wolcott Gibbs
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Music.
a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, esp. an appoggiatura.
[1815-25]
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grace note noun (music)
A note introduced as an embellishment, not being essential to the harmony or melody
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Main Entry: ↑grace
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an extra musical note added in a piece of music
Thesaurus: notes in the musical scalehyponym
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grace note,
Music. a note or group of notes not essential to the harmony or melody but added for ornament, such as an appoggiatura. Grace notes are printed in smaller type than the regular notes.
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n. Music an extra note added as an embellishment and not essential to the harmony or melody
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an extra note which is not a necessary part of a tune, but which is played before one of the notes of the tune as decoration
Useful english dictionary. 2012.