Check this out: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/30724/appoggiatura
Gerard

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Mark Stephen Mrotek
<carsonm...@ca.rr.com>wrote:

> Mr. Thomas:****
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> Actually the musical term is in Italian. It is acciaccatura. If the little
> note does not have the stroke it is called an appoggiatura and is played a
> little bit before the principal note.****
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>
> Mark Stephen Mrotek****
>
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> *From:* lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr....@gnu.org [mailto:
> lilypond-user-bounces+carsonmark=ca.rr....@gnu.org] *On Behalf Of *Stefan
> Thomas
> *Sent:* Monday, October 15, 2012 7:11 AM
> *To:* lilypond-user
> *Subject:* how to call these notes?****
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> Dear community,
> I would like to know, how You can call in english those small, stroked out
> notes, which have to be played as fast as possible.
> I think, grace notes is not exactly the proper name.
> I have a small example provided, which uses different note-types. The idea
> is to notate different kinds of rubato.
>
> \version "2.16.0"
> smaller =  { \set fontSize = #-3 }
> normalheads = { \unset fontSize \revert NoteHead #'stencil }
>  squaredheads = { \unset fontSize \override NoteHead #'stencil =
>     #(lambda (grob)
>        (grob-interpret-markup grob
>          (markup #:musicglyph "noteheads.s2la"))) }
> Music = \relative g' {
>   \cadenzaOn
>   \smaller g16[ ges f ] \normalheads  b2
>   \smaller bes16[ as g ]
>    \squaredheads <des' es > 8  \normalheads a4.
>    \smaller dis,16[-\markup{ \postscript #"0.2 setlinewidth 0  1.5  moveto
> 3 4   rlineto stroke" }  e f ]
>    \normalheads fis1
> }
> \markup {
>   \wordwrap {
>   Small note heads: to be played a little faster. Square note heads: to be
>   played a little slower.Grace notes: as fast as possible.}
> }
> \new Staff \with { \remove Time_signature_engraver   } { \Music }****
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