"Fioriture" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it be a system—of cadenzas, fioriture embellishment and ornamentation is perhaps traceable to the East. In his "Folk Music Studies," Mr. H. E. Krehbiel quotes the description of "a rhapsodical embellishment, called 'alap,' which after going through a variety of ad libitum passages, ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker |
