Mordent vs. Trill: What's the Difference?

A melodic ornament in which a principal tone is rapidly alternated with the tone a half or full step below.

A fluttering or tremulous sound, as that made by certain birds; a warble.

(music) An ornament consisting of a single alternation between a given pitch and the one immediately below it.

The rapid alternation of two tones either a whole or a half tone apart.

A vibrato.

A rapid vibration of one speech organ against another, as of the tongue against the alveolar ridge in Spanish rr.

A speech sound pronounced with such a vibration.

To sound, sing, or play with a trill.

To articulate (a sound) with a trill.

To produce or give forth a trill.

(music) A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above it, in musical notation usually indicated with the letters tr written above the staff.

(phonetics) A type of consonantal sound that is produced by vibrations of the tongue against the place of articulation: for example, Spanish ⟨rr⟩, /r/.

A tremulous high-pitched vocal sound produced by cats.

(intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

(transitive) To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill.

To trickle.

To twirl.

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To flow in a small stream, or in drops rapidly succeeding each other; to trickle.

To turn round; to twirl.

To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill; as, to trill the r; to trill a note.

To utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.

A sound, of consonantal character, made with a rapid succession of partial or entire intermissions, by the vibration of some one part of the organs in the mouth - tongue, uvula, epiglottis, or lip - against another part; as, the r is a trill in most languages.

The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d

A shake or quaver of the voice in singing, or of the sound of an instrument, produced by the rapid alternation of two contiguous tones of the scale; as, to give a trill on the high C. See Shake.

A note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it

Pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r';

Sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below