Exceptionally, the acciaccatura may be notated in the bar preceding the note to which it is attached, showing that it is to be played before the beat . ( This guide to practice is unfortunately not available, of course, if the principal note does not fall at the beginning of the bar .)
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Although Holbrooke's choral writing could occasionally be unadventurous and somewhat four-square, as in the poem for chorus and orchestra " Byron ", there are effects of startling originality elsewhere, ranging from the vocal use of the acciaccatura in " The Bells " to the multi-layered chorus of shouted warcries in the final act of " Bronwen ".
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I mean, the article even singled out acciaccatura as a word that nobody other than some sort of ancient music scholar would know : it's on the syllabus fairly low down in Associated Board theory grades : I didn't have to be able to spell it, but I did need to know what it was . talk ) 22 : 45, 3 June 2011 ( UTC)
