Description
A lot of Renaissance instrumental music is decorated with ornaments. These include mordents, trills and turns. They appear in a lot of keyboard and lute music of the time. A mordent is formed by playing a note, the note above and then returning to the first note. This video explains a mordent and its effect.
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