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Scotch snap

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Scotch snap

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The Scotch snap in the upper voice of a passage from Handel's Alcina.

In music, the technical name for rhythmic figures inverting the order of dotted notes, the short note coming first instead of last. Its name in England is due to the fact that the Scotch snap is a feature in the Scottish strathspey (folk dance). It was popular in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries and was called by German writers the ‘Lombardy rhythm’.



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