arpeggi

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There's a delicate art at play in the placement of pitches, from the use of motives in a sequence to the deployment of broad leaps and arpeggi. (10 mins.)

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  • There's a delicate art at play in the placement of pitches, from the use of motives in a sequence to the deployment of broad leaps and arpeggi. (10 mins.) —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • She took her violin, and putting it under her arm, plucked arpeggi sharply. —  The Nebuly Coat
  • The word arpeggio (plural arpeggi) is a derivation of the —  Music Notation and Terminology
  • I confess it: yet muffle your cymbals, moderate your arpeggi, for the sake of your historian! —  Social Life in the Insect World
  • He also suggests -- quite like the fertile Hans Guido -- that "players who have sufficient patience and enthusiasm for the task would find it worth their while to practise the arpeggi the reverse way, from top to bottom; or in contrary motion, beginning with the top note in one hand and the bottom note in the other. —  Chopin : the Man and His Music
 

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