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role in musical notation
- In musical notation: Auxiliary signs
use in embellishment of melody
- In appoggiatura
- In melody

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Cross-references added.	Kara Rogers	Sep 08, 2017
	Removed passage suggesting that ornamentation was an unknown concept in ancient and Asian musics.	Virginia Gorlinski	Feb 01, 2010
	Added new Web site: International Double Reed Society - Baroque ornamentation.	Kanchan Gupta	Jan 25, 2008
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998