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Mannheim sigh

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The Mannheim sigh may refer to:

  • Mannheim Sigh, a Mannheim School musical innovation putting more weight on the first of two notes in descending pairs of slurred notes
  • Pianto, the motif of a descending minor second, represented laments and associated textually with weeping, sighing, or pain, grief, etc.