Trill (music)

A trill ( from Italian ( onomatopoeic ) trillo ) is an ornament in the music: the listed main sound and the overlying sub sound ( half step or whole step ) are over the duration of the main note of time played at a fast Wechel.

The notation and play the trill after and before the beginning of the 19th century (pictured above).

Before 1800 ( right panel) the trill begins on the upper side tone. Then ( left figure ), he starts with the root. Notation often without the extension line.

If you want to start a trill with the side tone from 1800, you have to add a short proposal. A chromatic change is recorded over the trill sign with the change character ♯ or ♭. Otherwise, the grace note. From the image below you can see the notation of this modified trills and their style of play, although those can be different depending on the tone of this example.

Use of the trill

Especially in the era of classical music the trill is often used at the end of a cadence of a solo concerto. A trill should be listed above the notes. Where the Kreuztontrillernotation, which here has a cross on the trill symbol, usually results in a minor third. The minor third there is the beginning of the tremolo and the tremoli notation and looks in the normal case where the usual bar slash notation for tremolos as notation From before.