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A series of arpeggios in J. S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring "The Star-Spangled Banner" opens with an arpeggio. [1] Arpeggios open Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and continue as accompaniment An arpeggio ( Italian: [arˈpeddʒo] ) is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive ...
Equivalent patterns in 4 4 and 3 4 [1] Play 4 4 ⓘ and Play 3 4 ⓘ Alberti bass patterns on V 7 Alberti bass in the opening of Thomas Attwood's (1765–1838) Sonatina in G Major [2] Play ⓘ Alberti bass in the opening of Muzio Clementi's Sonatina in G, Op. 36, No. 2 (1797) [3] Play ⓘ The opening of the 5th of Beethoven's Seven Variations on "God Save the King" WoO 78 (1804) introduces ...
Meaning respectively "measured song" or "figured song". Originally used by medieval music theorists, it refers to polyphonic song with exactly measured notes and is used in contrast to cantus planus. [3] [4] capo 1. capo (short for capotasto: "nut") : A key-changing device for stringed instruments (e.g. guitars and banjos)
Definition Lacuna: gap: A silent pause in a piece of music Ossia: from o ("or") + sia ("that it be") A secondary passage of music which may be played in place of the original Ostinato: stubborn, obstinate: A repeated motif or phrase in a piece of music Pensato: thought out: A composed imaginary note Ritornello: little return
Mozart's Piano Sonata, K 545 opening. The right hand plays the melody, which is in the top stave. The left hand plays the accompaniment part, which is in the lower stave. In the first bar of the accompaniment part, the pianist plays a C Major chord in the left hand; this chord is arpeggiated (i.e., a chord in which the notes are played one after the other, rather than simultaneousl
The chord-scale system may be compared with other common methods of improvisation, first, the older traditional chord tone/chord arpeggio method, and where one scale on one root note is used throughout all chords in a progression (for example the blues scale on A for all chords of the blues progression: A 7 E 7 D 7).
A guitarist performing a C chord with G bass. In Western music theory, a chord is a group [a] of notes played together for their harmonic consonance or dissonance.The most basic type of chord is a triad, so called because it consists of three distinct notes: the root note along with intervals of a third and a fifth above the root note. [1]
The Mannheim Rocket is composed in a single movement and has a duration of roughly 11 minutes. The piece was inspired by the so-called "Mannheim crescendo" or "Mannheim rocket"—a musical technique perfected by the Mannheim Orchestra in the 18th century in which "a rising figure (a scale or arpeggio) speeded up and grew louder as it rose higher and higher."