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arpeggio

/ahr-pej-ee-oh, -pej-oh/US // ɑrˈpɛdʒ iˌoʊ, -ˈpɛdʒ oʊ //UK // (ɑːˈpɛdʒɪəʊ) //

琶音,琶音器,琶语,琶琶音

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ar·peg·gi·os.Music.

    • : the sounding of the notes of a chord in rapid succession instead of simultaneously.
    • : a chord thus sounded.

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Examples

  • We started with some scales and arpeggios, and then I had a book of sonatinas that I’d bought when I got the piano, and we decided to work from there.

  • It is doubtful whether even the forms most peculiar to him (such as the arpeggio-prelude) are of his invention.

  • Begin by making the class sing them in arpeggio, and in a definite rhythm, so as to get precision.

  • He gloats a while over the Second's gloomy outlook, and yawns in that irritating arpeggio, the foretaste of a good sound sleep.

  • In a large number of his themes the arpeggio predominates, and always with a special interest and a special personality.

  • All this had been the merest muted arpeggio accompaniment to the steady practical advance of her housekeeper's mind.