Arpeggio

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A broken chord is a chord broken into a

sequence of notes. A broken chord may repeat
some of the notes from the chord and span one
or more octaves.
An arpeggio (Italian: [arˈpeddʒo]) is a type of Arpeggios open Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and
broken chord, in which the notes that compose continue as accompaniment. Play
a chord are played or sung in a rising or
descending order. An arpeggio may also span
more than one octave.
The word arpeggio comes from the Italian word arpeggiare,

which means to play on a harp.
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Even though the notes of an arpeggio are not played or sung all with an arpeggio[1] Play arpeggio
together at the same time, listeners hear the sequence of notes as followed by chord
forming a chord. When an arpeggio also contains passing tones
that are not part of the chord, different music theorists may
analyze the same musical excerpt differently.
Arpeggios enable composers writing for monophonic instruments that play one note at a time (e.g.,
flute, saxophone, trumpet), to voice chords and chord progressions in musical pieces. Arpeggios and
broken chords are also used to help create rhythmic interest. A notable example is the Alberti bass
figuration, widely used in piano music from the classical music period. With an Alberti bass, rather
than play the notes of a chord all at once, the pianist plays simple rhythmic figures in which the notes
are played as a broken chord.
Explanation
Instruments
Bell chord
See also
References
Further reading
External links
An arpeggio is a group of notes played one after the other, up or down in pitch. The player plays the
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notes of a particular chord individually rather than together. The chord may, for example, be a simple
chord with the 1st, (major or minor) 3rd, and 5th scale degrees (this is called a "tonic triad"). An
arpeggio for the chord of C major going up two octaves would be the notes (C, E, G, C, E, G, C). An
arpeggio is a type of broken chord. Other types of broken chords play chord notes out of sequence or
more than one note but less than the full chord simultaneously.
Arpeggios can rise or fall for more than one octave. Students of musical instruments and singers learn
how to play and sing scales and arpeggios. Arpeggiated chords are often used in harp and piano
music. An arpeggiated chord may be written with a wavy vertical line in front of the chord.
It spreads from the lowest to highest note. Occasionally, composers specify that the musicians play
them from top to bottom by adding an arrow pointing down.
Any instrument may employ arpeggiation, but the following instruments use arpeggios most often:
String instruments play arpeggios in classical music. Along with scales, arpeggios are a form of
basic technical exercise that students use to develop intonation and technique.
Bass guitarists often use arpeggios or arpeggiated figures to outline the important notes of
chords.
Banjo players use arpeggios, especially in the Scruggs style three-finger method of playing.
Guitarists use arpeggios extensively in certain genres, such as Flamenco, neo-classical, and
often using sweep-picking.
Synthesizers, especially monophonic ones such as the TB-303, are often called on to play
arpeggios, especially in electronica. Some synths contain automatic arpeggiators for this purpose.
Music for keyboards, such as piano and accordions, often has arpeggios, even though these are
polyphonic instruments that can play all notes of a chord at the same time.
Arpeggios are an important part of the jazz improvisation

vocabulary of horns and keyboards, guitars, and bass. In Western
classical music, a chord that is played first with the lowest note
and then with successive higher notes joining in is called
arpeggiato. Sometimes this effect is reversed, with the highest
note coming first. In some modern popular music arpeggiato is
called a rolled chord.
In early video game music, arpeggios were often the only way to
play a chord since sound hardware usually had a very limited A hardware MIDI arpeggiator
number of oscillators, or voices. Instead of tying them all up to
play one chord, one channel could be used to play an arpeggio,
leaving the rest for drums, bass, or sound effects. A prominent example was the music of games and
demos on Commodore 64's SID chip, which only had three oscillators (see also Chiptune).
This technique was highly popular amongst European video game music composers for systems in the
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1980s like the NES, with many transferring their knowledge from their days of composing with the
Commodore 64. However, this technique was rarely used by American and Japanese composers.[2]
A bell chord, also known colloquially as "bells", is a musical

arrangement technique in which a composition has separate
instruments (or multiples of the same instrument) play single
notes of a chord in sequence, sustaining individual notes to form
the chord.[3] It is, in effect, an arpeggio played by several
instruments sequentially. This is also known as a pyramid or
cascade. It is common in barbershop music.
Barbershop bell chord. Play
The technique originated with jazz big bands and is a staple of
trad jazz. A good example can be heard in the introduction to
"The Charleston" by The Temperance Seven. Additionally, "Bohemian Rhapsody" by the rock band
Queen contains two occurrences of this "bell effect" in the middle section,[4] as does the solo in Killer
Queen starting at 1:48.
Bass arpeggiation
Non-harmonic arpeggio
Ostinato
Style brisé
Tremolo
1. Kamien, Roger (2008). Music: An Appreciation, p.43. McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-340134-8
2. "Arpeggio – Nesdev wiki" (https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Arpeggio). wiki.nesdev.com.
Retrieved 2016-12-27.
3. Averill, Gage (2003). Four Parts, No Waiting:A Social History of American Barbershop Quartet,
p.205. ISBN 9780195116724.
4. ovolollo91. "Queen – The Making Of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' 'Greatest Video Hits 1' (https://www.yo
utube.com/watch?v=Z85YsUAU6pA)" YouTube, 17 Sep. 2011. Web.
Wayne, Chuck; Patt, Ralph (1965). Guitar arpeggio dictionary: A library of over 2000 arpeggios,
Including a diagram projector and viewing screen, Showing 25 types of arpeggios. H. Adler.
pp. 1–51.
iBreathemusic.com – Arpeggios by David Bohorquez (July 15, 2009) (http://www.ibreathemusic.co
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m/article/170)
Introduction to Jazz Guitar Arpeggios (https://www.jazzguitar.be/blog/guitar-arpeggios/)
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Arpeggio - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.

A broken chord is a chord broken into a

The word arpeggio comes from the Italian word arpeggiare,

Arpeggios are an important part of the jazz improvisation

A bell chord, also known colloquially as "bells", is a musical

iBreathemusic.com – Arpeggios by David Bohorquez (July 15, 2009) (http://www.ibreathemusic.co

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