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Slurred Figures Slurred Figures
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Dissonance and Chromatic Notes Dissonance and Chromatic Notes
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Note Pitch Note Pitch
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Note Length Note Length
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Syncopation Syncopation
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Beaming Beaming
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Final Notes Final Notes
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Other Factors Other Factors
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Agogic Accent Agogic Accent
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Percussive Accent Percussive Accent
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Abstract
In the later 18th century, theoretical writers encouraged composers to mark oratorical and pathetic accents, which had been conventionally left to the performer to identify. New signs were proposed for this purpose. Even during the first half of the 19th century, however, much expressive accentuation was still expected to be supplied by the performer. Some musical circumstances implied accentuation where this was not specifically indicated. These included the first note of slurred figures (sometimes but not always), dissonant or chromatic notes, particularly high or low notes, long notes among smaller note values, syncopation, unusual beaming, sometimes final notes, and the initial note of repeated figures. Some accents were expected to be percussive, others agogic, sometimes encouraging inequality in passages of equal-length notes.
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