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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Accentuating a note by extending it slightly beyond its normal time value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An accent that accentuates a note by extending it slightly beyond its normal time value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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History
Apparently from German Agoge (“tempo”), from Ancient Greek ἀγωγή (agōgḗ, “carrying, leading, reduplicated formation; tempo”), + -ic, after German agogisch. By surface analysis, agoge + -ic.
Across languages
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