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ornamentation|ɔːnəmənˈteɪʃən|
[f. ornament v. + -ation: cf. mod.F. ornementation.]
1. The action or process of ornamenting; the state of being adorned; the subordinate branch of art which deals especially with ornament.
1860Mill Repr. Govt. (1861) 49 To the amusement and ornamentation of private life. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. vii. 249 The philosophy of architectural ornamentation is continually being more deeply sifted. 1866Cornh. Mag. May 544 In the comparatively petty art of ornamentation, in rings, brooches, croziers, relic-cases, and so on, he has done just enough to show his delicacy of taste, his happy temperament.
2. That in which the process of ornamenting is embodied; the ornaments which adorn a thing collectively; ornament in general.
1851Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iii. v. 135 A great similarity is traceable in the ornamentation of the whole northern races of Europe. 1879Lubbock Sci. Lect. v. 160 The ornamentation on the arms, implements, and pottery..consists of geometrical patterns.
3. Mus. The use of grace notes to provide embellishment of a melodic line.
1879[see arabesque n. 5]. 1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 675/1 Ornamentation in the old Italian vocal style had become so much second nature with them that nothing he could say would induce them to keep to the copies before them. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xvii. 310 The ornamentation of the Russo-Oriental folk song. 1962Listener 2 Aug. 189/3 Her ornamentation is always designed to stress dissonances at crucial points. 1963Ibid. 3 Jan. 45/3 Should we not consider carefully whether, say, spread piano chords are not as obligatory in playing Ravel as correct ornamentation in playing Bach? |