(thing) by Alpheus Wed Feb 28 2001 at 10:08:09
An escape tone (in counterpoint, tonal harmony, and composition) is a non-chord tone approached by step and resolved by a leap in the opposite direction. They are in essence the opposite of appoggiatura.

Escape tones are usually diatonic, unaccented, and occuring on weak beats leading to strong beats.
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