arpeggio
See also: arpeggiò
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian arpeggio, from arpeggiare (“to play a harp”).
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ɑɹˈpɛ.d͡ʒi.oʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editarpeggio (plural arpeggios or arpeggi)
- (music) The notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind[1]:
- He struck the opening chords of the passage; but this time Irene's voice was silent. Victor stopped in the middle of an arpeggio.
Translations
editnotes of a chord played individually
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See also
editVerb
editarpeggio (third-person singular simple present arpeggios, present participle arpeggioing, simple past and past participle arpeggioed)
- (transitive) To play (a chord) as an arpeggio; to play (a piece of music) with arpeggios.
- Synonym: arpeggiate
- 1819, Abraham Rees (ed.), The Cyclopædia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 14, entry “Fingering on Keyed Instruments,”[2]
- In practising quick passages, the fingers should be lifted up with a spring, and not allowed to hang on the keys, till wanted again, unless in arpeggioing chords, or in passages of expression.
- 1872, Samuel Butler, chapter 4, in Erewhon […] [3], London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 29:
- […] I could see a man with his head buried forward towards a key-board, and his body swaying from side to side amid the storm of huge arpeggioed harmonies that came crashing overhead and round.
- 1902, Booth Tarkington, chapter 1, in The Two Vanrevels[4], New York: McClure, Phillips, page 11:
- […] having finished her piano-forte practice, touched her harp twice, and arpeggioed the Spanish Fandango on her guitar, Miss Betty read two paragraphs of “Gilbert” […]
- 1990, Marcel Montecino, Big Time[5], New York: William Morrow, Book 3, p. 197:
- When his fingers touched the piano, he formed a D7 chord, arpeggioed it up the inversions, then started singing and playing the “Happy Birthday” song.
- (intransitive) To produce arpeggios; to produce sounds resembling arpeggios.
- 1898, Edward Noyes Westcott, chapter 37, in David Harum[6], New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 314:
- Herr Schlitz seated himself on the piano chair, pushed it a little back, drew it a little forward to the original place, looked under the piano at the pedals, took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and hands, and after arpeggioing up and down the keyboard, swung into a waltz of Chopin’s […]
- 1909, O. Henry, “Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking”, in Roads of Destiny[7], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 357:
- The soaring sound [of the whistling] rippled and trilled and arpeggioed as the songs of wild birds do not;
- 2012, Roshi Fernando, “At the Barn Dance”, in Homesick[8], New York: Vintage, page 166:
- The accordion player arpeggioed through a chord […]
- (transitive, intransitive, figurative) To move (the hand or fingers) against a surface as if playing arpeggios on a keyboard; to touch different points in succession along a surface.
- 1931, Kate O’Brien, Without My Cloak[9], London: Penguin, published 1987, Book 2, Chapter 8, p. 187:
- Her hand was still arpeggioing softly on his arm.
- 1966, Richard Lancaster, Piegan: A Look from Within at the Life, Times, and Legacy of an American Indian Tribe[10], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 168:
- the prickle of horripilation which arpeggioed my spine as I came barrelling down the hill from that ghost house
- 2009, Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Hidden Roads[11], London: Quercus, page 136:
- While we thanked him for having us and told him the car was packed, and so on, he arpeggioed his stumpy fingers across his scarlet blanket.
Translations
editto play as an arpeggio
Anagrams
editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈɑrpeɡːio/, [ˈɑ̝rpe̞ɡˌɡio̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈɑrpedːʒio/, [ˈɑ̝rpe̞dːˌʒio̞]
- Rhymes: -io
- Syllabification(key): ar‧peg‧gi‧o
Noun
editarpeggio
Declension
editInflection of arpeggio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | arpeggio | arpeggiot | |
genitive | arpeggion | arpeggioiden arpeggioitten | |
partitive | arpeggiota | arpeggioita | |
illative | arpeggioon | arpeggioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | arpeggio | arpeggiot | |
accusative | nom. | arpeggio | arpeggiot |
gen. | arpeggion | ||
genitive | arpeggion | arpeggioiden arpeggioitten | |
partitive | arpeggiota | arpeggioita | |
inessive | arpeggiossa | arpeggioissa | |
elative | arpeggiosta | arpeggioista | |
illative | arpeggioon | arpeggioihin | |
adessive | arpeggiolla | arpeggioilla | |
ablative | arpeggiolta | arpeggioilta | |
allative | arpeggiolle | arpeggioille | |
essive | arpeggiona | arpeggioina | |
translative | arpeggioksi | arpeggioiksi | |
abessive | arpeggiotta | arpeggioitta | |
instructive | — | arpeggioin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian
editEtymology 1
editDeverbal from arpeggiare + -o, from arpa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editarpeggio m (plural arpeggi)
Descendants
edit- → English: arpeggio
- → French: arpège
- → Portuguese: arpejo
- → Russian: арпе́джио (arpédžio)
- → Kazakh: арпеджио (arpedjio)
- → Spanish: arpegio
Etymology 2
editFrom arpeggiare + -io (frequentative).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editarpeggio m (plural arpeggii) (uncommon)
Etymology 3
editPronunciation
editVerb
editarpeggio
Anagrams
editPolish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from Italian arpeggio.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editarpeggio n (related adjective arpedżiowy)
- (music) arpeggio (notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest)
Declension
editDeclension of arpeggio
Further reading
editPortuguese
editNoun
editarpeggio m (plural arpeggios)
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