Associations to the word «Mordent»

Wiktionary

MORDENT, noun. (music) An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope