arpeggio
Ar-PED-ji-oe
[Italian]
Playing the notes of a chord consecutively (harp style). A broken chord in which the individual notes are sounded one after the other instead of simultaneously.
Example
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in E major, K. 20, "Capriccio"
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major
François Couperin: Second livre de clavecin, "Les barricades misterieuses"
See Also
[Abbreviation] arpio.[Abbreviation] Arp.
[English] broken chord
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Last Updated: 2016-04-29 19:34:35