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Definition of Arpeggios
1. arpeggio [n] - See also: arpeggio
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arpeggios
Literary usage of Arpeggios
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chats to 'cello Students by Arthur Broadley (1915)
"arpeggios. arpeggios are chords, the notes of which are sounded separately. ...
The notes of a chord which are to be played as arpeggios are sometimes ..."
2. Music by Henry Charles Banister (1887)
"arpeggios. GROUND BASS. 244. THE notes of a chord may be played successively,
... arpeggios are not good, unless the chords which they represent are ..."
3. Conscious Control in Piano Study by Ellen Amey (1921)
"Study of arpeggios. — Practicing arpeggios is but another way of practicing
chords, and arpeggios on each chord studied should be played in each of the ..."
4. Alfred Day's Treatise on Harmony by Alfred Day, George Alexander Macfarren (1885)
"OF DIATONIC AND CHROMATIC PASSING NOTES IN THE FREE STYLE, AND arpeggios.
INTRODUCTION. IN this Chapter are contained the laws affecting that part of music ..."
5. Vocalism, Its Structure and Culture from an English Standpoint by William Hammond Breare (1904)
"arpeggios. arpeggios should be practised slowly at first, to attain evenness.
In a rapidly ascending group of six notes the first must be delicately " felt ..."
6. The Letters of a Leipzig Cantor: Being the Letters of Moritz Hauptmann to by Moritz Hauptmann, Alfred Schöne, Ferdinand Hiller, Arthur Duke Coleridge (1892)
"... unless he makes vocal arpeggios of the accompanying harmony. Italian melodies,
as well as the Volkslieder, would be spoilt, if they were undergirded ..."
7. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"... to play them (the arpeggios, with every possible crescendo and piano and
f., with pedal as a matter of course, and the bas* notes doubled as well. ..."
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