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An example of ‘anticipation’ from Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2.

In music, the occurrence of a note or notes from a chord before the rest of the chord is sounded.



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Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.
By the time they have lounged up and down the promenade of the Equator awhile, they start for the Oriental waters in anticipation of the cool season there, and so evade the other excessive temperature of the year.
"Love" then becomes "the anticipation of benefits"; "duty" becomes "necessity" or "fitness"; and other words are correspondingly transmuted.
 
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