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  • noun Plural form of arpeggio.

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Examples

  • I also told you already that the notes in question usually are "arpeggios", which are the notes of a chord played in sequence, instead of all at once.

    All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com 2009

  • Hojun Lee's Arirang Fantasie had a hiker traversing Korea's most famous mountain peak in music perhaps a little too sweetly Westernized with consonant harmonies and twinkling piano arpeggios in a manner equivalent to Thomas Kinkade's idyllic paintings.

    Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

  • Piano collaborator Helmut Deutsch followed Kaufmann every step of the way, from melancholy to bliss in sympathetic partnership, fully earning his pay in the florid accompaniments of the Strauss songs, his well-articulated arpeggios flying up and down the span of the keyboard like so many effortless birds in flight.

    Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

  • Piano collaborator Helmut Deutsch followed Kaufmann every step of the way, from melancholy to bliss in sympathetic partnership, fully earning his pay in the florid accompaniments of the Strauss songs, his well-articulated arpeggios flying up and down the span of the keyboard like so many effortless birds in flight.

    Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera Rodney Punt 2011

  • There was a bounce in his step and he whistled a high-pitched tune — full of sharp corners and feverish, screeching arpeggios.

    Blog Fiction | Sci-Fi | Tanjoubi | Station151 2010

  • Hojun Lee's Arirang Fantasie had a hiker traversing Korea's most famous mountain peak in music perhaps a little too sweetly Westernized with consonant harmonies and twinkling piano arpeggios in a manner equivalent to Thomas Kinkade's idyllic paintings.

    Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

  • The data base from which the app chooses arpeggios is a linked bifurcated system where the computer "knows" which upper structures are consonant with which lower structures so the chords can move in leap-frog fashion: top notes can remain when lower notes change or vice versa because the moves are guaranteed to make harmonic sense.

    Joseph Vella: Jazz, Math, Tech & Lyle Mays Joseph Vella 2011

  • Hojun Lee's Arirang Fantasie had a hiker traversing Korea's most famous mountain peak in music perhaps a little too sweetly Westernized with consonant harmonies and twinkling piano arpeggios in a manner equivalent to Thomas Kinkade's idyllic paintings.

    Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

  • With the glistening, rippling runs and arpeggios at which he excels, he played a chamber arrangement, accompanied by players from his Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra.

    Daniel Barenboim - review 2011

  • Hojun Lee's Arirang Fantasie had a hiker traversing Korea's most famous mountain peak in music perhaps a little too sweetly Westernized with consonant harmonies and twinkling piano arpeggios in a manner equivalent to Thomas Kinkade's idyllic paintings.

    Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

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