title: Ribattuta
text: # Ribattuta
  
  Ribattuta or Ribattuta di gola is a musical ornament found in Italian and German works of the 17th and 18th centuries.
  
  ## Execution
  
  The ornament is a trill on a long-short dotted rhythm accelerating to end on either a tremolo or a regular trill.
  
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  ## Sources
  
  The ornament is described by Mattheson (1739), Spiess (1745), and Marpurg (1749).
  
  Frederick Neumann notes the trill following the dotted preparation is a main-note trill (that is, starting on the written note), and he cautions against use of the term as a general descriptor for dotted alternation as a prelude to a trill.
  
  ## Nomenclature
  
  Italian: ribattuta (f) di gola German: der Zurückschlag or der gedehnte oder punctirte Triller (Mattheson) English: ribattuta French: ribattuta (f) or tour de gosier (Marpurg) or cadence pleine à progression (Lacassagne) or double cadence (Bérard-Blanchet)
  
  