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Melisma (f)

(with) definite article: la
(the) ?

gracing technique (in order of complexity / frequency): b

No identical types known (yet).

Group of successive notes, forming a neum or ornamentation to one sung vowel; Frequently interpreted in rubato.


Sources

La gaita asturiana: método para su aprendizaje. Oviedo, s.a. [1991], p.253.