Mordents is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 416 anagrams from letters in mordents (demnorst).
1800-10; German Italian mordente biting Latin mordent-, stem of mordēns, present participle of mordēre to bite; see -ent
Running over the leaves, he came to the illustrations of the mordent.
Running over the leaves he came to the illustrations of the mordent.
And he tightened his arms round her, happy once more for a mordent in this environment of a perfect love.
When executing the mordent, is not the use of three fingers preferable to two?
The last note of the mordent should be accented in this case.
mordent, mor′dent, n. a kind of trill in music, or the character indicating it.
Never was there such gilding of the lily, such painstaking practice of trill and mordent.
The selection of the fingers for the execution of a mordent depends always upon the preceding notes or keys which lead up to it.
The mordent must be played fast enough to preserve the rhythmic integrity of the melody-note.