An agogic accent is an emphasis by virtue of being longer in duration.

I hope one day he will try it without anything - no subtle accents, hesitations or other agogic methods - and simply keep time.

There are four kinds of agogic accent:

The psychoanalytical process is an "agogic" activity, based only on guiding and showing, in contexts where experiences take on meaning for the patient.

Yvonne Loriod performs miracles of agogic adjustment here, and the whole texture surges with enthusiasm.

Agogic accents?

"Art poétique", Verlaine applied to agogic accents, never quite convinced, but made me write; I still use "grey" too much.

In the following example, "Eleanor Rigby" by Paul McCartney, agogic accent and syncopation combine to bring words out of the text.

Using wide dynamic and agogic space, he formed the giant Prelude extremely thrilling, the Sarabande meditative, and joyous the Allemande."

Outside the musical notation per se and the signs related thereto, the indications pertaining to dynamism (intensity, nuances) and to agogic (tempo) constitute the essential objective basis of any interpretation.

Nevertheless, the accompaniment was as sympathetic as possible and Mr. Kipnis enlivened his performance with the agogic accents or syncopations necessary on an instrument that lacks soft-loud (pianoforte) capabilities.

A differentiated articulation and ornamentation practice as well as a discreet agogic and fluent tempos show him to be an historically oriented, but a thoroughly individual interpreter in the shaping of details.

Alertness and agility distinguished the ensemble's concerts and recordings, "finely graded agogic nuances, precise assessment and moderate use of tonal space, controlled expressivity" (Berliner Zeitung) renders them unmistakable.

Score-worship was also part of the Mahler legend: his protege Bruno Walter said that as a conductor Mahler demanded "complete faithfulness to the score, its notation, tempos, agogic marks and dynamics.

Melisima: More than one note to a syllable (also known as coloratura, fioratura, vocal cadenza) This is a form of agogic accent as it may add length to a syllable but it also adds the colours of the new notes.

Country Gardens is given a brisk but light and airy reading, the gentle agogic accents in The Merry King are aptly placed, and the unaffected lyricism of Walking Tune, a superb vignette that pays tribute to Grieg, is appropriately disarming.

The emergence of the once-glorious waltz had the sickly-sweet smell of death about it and in exaggerating the rubatos and agogic hesitations of the familiar Viennese style it was as if Nezet-Seguin was holding a distorting mirror up to the music and showing us its imminent collapse.