Re: how to call these notes?

[Hans Aberg]

Article "appoggiatura" says: "The 19th century brought still further changes in 
the treatment of the appoggiatura. The long appoggiatura became absorbed in the 
ordinary notation, and the short appoggiatura was invariably indicated by a 
small note with a single stroke across its stem, called a grace note or 
(erroneously) an acciaccatura."

So it suggests that the stroked grace notes became the normal way of notate in 
the 19th century. But you need to check what is notated in the original 
manuscript, because engravers may at will translate into modern notation.


On 17 Oct 2012, at 15:47, Mark Stephen Mrotek wrote:

> The Harvard Concise is not in my possession.  I do have a copy of Haydn's
> Keyboard Concerto No. 11 in D. The acciaccatura (small eight notes with
> diagonal stroke "tied" to the principal note) appears multiple times in the
> first and third movements. This concerto was published in 1782.
> 
> Mark Stephen Mrotek
> 
> 
> On 16 Oct 2012, at 19:20, David Rogers wrote:
> 
>> I don't have any of the engraving manuals - what is this note called 
>> in those books? It would probably be better to go along with the 
>> "industry standard name", even if that name turns out not to be 
>> perfect.
> 
> The Harvard Concise says that originally (c. 1675-1725), acciaccatura was
> the crush, but it did not have a special notation. The others are all called
> appoggiatura. The slashed grace note notation was invented in the 19th
> century, and some came to incorrectly call them acciaccatura. Lilypond
> propagates this misconception with \acciaccatura.
> 
> Hans
> 
>