What are embellishments?

A. Ornamental tones not printed in the music that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century performers were expected to add to the melody.
B. Obsolete in contemporary performances.
C. Music created at the same time it is performed.
D. Notes printed in the music that ornament the melody.


Answer: A

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