Agogic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Agogic is an adjective meaning Accentuating a note by extending it slightly beyond its normal time value.
Meaning
Accentuating a note by extending it slightly beyond its normal time value.
More Meanings
- (music) An accent that accentuates a note by extending it slightly beyond its normal time value.
Example Sentences
Obviously, extended melodies should end on the strongest and most agogic melodic cadence.
On most early instruments, changes were made only at agogic pauses, caesuras, repeats or between sections.
Timpanists need to be particularly aware of agogic accents because they often swallow up the smaller notes that precede them.
6F is the longest-held cadence sonority (it has the most agogic emphasis), and ends very conclusively with the V₇-I-V₇-V-I chord progression.
Word Forms
- agogics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include arpeggiation, accent, aureation, agoge, accentus, paragoge.
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