Lookup (music)

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Waltz accompaniment play ? / iAudio file / audio sample

Look-up means various things in music :

  • a sound on the unstressed beat . Together with the basic beat on the "heavy" beats, it forms the basic rhythmic pattern of many pieces of music. Typical of the Viennese waltz , for example, are the endings on the second and third quarter beats after the deep root on the one.
  • a musical ornament made up of a few notes that can, for example, come after a trill .

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