Definition of agogic in English:
agogic
adjective əˈɡɒdʒɪkəˈɡäjik
Music Relating to or denoting accentuation within musical phrases by slight lengthening of notes.
Example sentencesExamples
- What is new is the agogic and dynamic stress on the E, the weakest note of the C major triad, in bar 4.
- Riemann published editions of standard keyboard works in which agogic accents were marked with the sign ^.
- In addition, a trend in the response criteria relates to the concept of agogic accents in music - that is, the creation of a sense of accenting through the manipulation the timing of notes.
- Pairs generally include pieces of contrasting mood and agogic character, while larger groups offer more intricate narratives.
plural nounəˈɡɒdʒɪkəˈɡäjik
agogicsMusic usually treated as singular The use of agogic accents.
Example sentencesExamples
- Demidenko fusses around with agogics and tempo fluctuation to the point where the music's unity and cumulative power fall by the wayside.
- Three particularly instructive excerpts will be considered, and in each case Clynes’ very special agogics will be contrasted with that of one other pianist.
- Dynamics and agogics have virtually no significance; each intensification happens more or less on its own accord, without any perceptible outside stimulus.
- Hugo Riemann argues that without agogics music would be ‘machinelike’, and Wagner asserts that music would be ‘colourless and lifeless’ if played strictly as written.
- By contrast it's Fiorentino who mines the heroic in Eroica whilst Hatto exploits little agogics in the score to hint at the wit within.
Origin
Late 19th century: coined in German from Greek agōgos 'leading', from agein 'to lead', + -ic.