Inverted turn
An inverted turn circles the written note in the opposite direction: lower neighbour, main note, upper neighbour, main note. Its timing depends on placement and style, as with a normal turn, and older sources may use different signs or names.
The sources do not fully agree about this sign. The explanation above says where they part company.
- Ornaments and grace notes
- Above the note
- A wave or squiggle, A curve or arc
Do not confuse it with
The inverted turn begins below the main note; the normal turn begins above it.
What the sources say
- Study: Ornaments
The note below; The note itself; The note above; The note itself again
- Music Theory Online — Ornamentation
The turn may be inverted ... when the note sequence becomes the note below, the note itself, the note above, then the note itself again.
- SMuFL — Common ornaments
ornamentTurnInverted — Inverted turn