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Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary

Table of Accents

 

Percussive Accents

Pressure Accent

Combined Accents

Strong Accents

Strong Accent - generally meant for attacks at loud dynamic levels of forte or louder

 

 

Strong & Staccato Accents - very percussive and shorter duration than notated

Strong & Legato Accents - very percussive while retaining full duration of notation

Strong & Staccatissimo Accents - strongest percussive attack possible with an exaggerated short duration

 

Medium Accents

Normal Accent - moderately sharp attack that can be used at any dynamic level from pianissimo to fortissimo

Legato Accent - this can be used at any dynamic level and is a slight stress without a noticable attack and held to the full duration of the note

Legato & Staccato Accents - stressed and moderately short, separated from next note

Legato and Staccatissimo - stressed and quite short

Normal & Staccato Accents - moderately percussive and short

Normal & Legato Accents -moderately percussive with full note duration

Normal & Staccatissimo Accents - moderately percussive with short note duration

Light Accents

Staccato Accent - short and separated from the following note

Staccatissimo - an exaggerated short duration of the note