page_title: Fioritura
hierarchical_section_title: Fioritura
caption_attribution_description: English: Intricate ornamentation in Op 27, No 2
context_page_description: Fioritura is the florid embellishment of melodic lines, either notated by a composer or improvised during a performance. It usually involves lengthy, complex embellishments, as opposed to standardized local ornamental figures such as trills, mordents, or appoggiaturas, and its use is documented as early as the thirteenth century. The alternative term coloratura is less accurate. It is closely related to the sixteenth-century practice of diminution or division.
context_section_description: Fioritura (/fiˌɔːrɪˈtjʊərə/ fee-OR-i-TEWR-ə, Italian: [fjoriˈtuːra], meaning "flourish" or "flowering"; plural fioriture) is the florid embellishment of  melodic lines, either notated by a composer or improvised during a performance. It usually involves lengthy, complex embellishments, as opposed to standardized local ornamental figures such as trills, mordents, or appoggiaturas, and its use is documented as early as the thirteenth century (Da Costa 2002; Jander 2001). The alternative term coloratura is less accurate (Steane 1992). It is closely related to the sixteenth-century practice of diminution or division (Randel 2003).
caption: An extreme example of ornamentation as a fioritura from Chopin's Nocturne in D♭ major (About this soundPlay (help·info))
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