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In music, a '''mordent''' is an ornament that means that the note is to be played in rapid alternation with the note below. Like [[trillstrill]]s, they can be chromatically modified by a small flat, sharp or natural accidental. They occur most frequently in piano music (such as the oeuvre of Chopin) but occasionally turn up in orchestral scores.

In linguistics, a '''mordent''' is an elongated bar above a letter, used e.g. in [[transliterating]] Japanese in the [[Hepburn]] system. For example, ā