page_title: Ornament (music)
section_title: Nachschlag
hierarchical_section_title: Ornament (music) / Types / Nachschlag
caption_attribution_description: English: A visual depiction of a smooth nachschlag ornament on a musical staff
context_page_description: In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody, but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line, provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity to add expressiveness to a song or piece. Many ornaments are performed as "fast notes" around a central, main note.
  There are many types of ornaments, ranging from the addition of a single, short grace note before a main note to the performance of a virtuostic and flamboyant trill. The amount of ornamentation in a piece of music can vary from quite extensive to relatively little or even none. The word agrément is used specifically to indicate the French Baroque style of ornamentation.
context_section_description: The word Nachschlag (German: [ˈnaːxˌʃlaːk]) translates, literally, to “after-beat”, and refers to "the two notes that sometimes terminate a trill, and which, when taken in combination with the last two notes of the shake, may form a turn." The term Nachschlag may also refer to  “an ornament that took the form of a supplementary note that, when placed after a main note, “steals” time from it.”
  The first definition of Nachschlag refers to the “shaked” or trilled version of the ornament, while the second definition refers to the “smooth” version. This ornament has also been referred to as a cadent or a springer in English Baroque performance practice. Instruction books from the Baroque period, such as Christopher Simpson's The Division Violist, refer to the cadent as an ornament in which "a Note is sometimes graced by joyning  [sic] part of its sound to the note following... whose following Quaver is Placed with the ensuing Note, but played with the same Bow."
caption: A smooth Nachschlag
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