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17.64Ornamentation should react to style

For a classical-like version:

  • turns
  • neighbors
  • suspensions
  • sequences

For jazz:

  • chromatic approaches
  • enclosures
  • syncopation
  • delayed attacks

For blues:

  • crushed notes
  • ♭3→3 inflection
  • repeated motifs
  • call and response

For pop ballad:

  • anticipations
  • melodic fills
  • octave displacement
  • restrained passing notes

Same melody, different decoration vocabulary.