arpeggio

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest.

   “He struck the opening chords of the passage; but this time Irene's voice was silent. Victor stopped in the middle of an arpeggio.”

2. fiil To play (a chord) as an arpeggio; to play (a piece of music) with arpeggios.

   “[…] I could see a man with his head buried forward towards a key-board, and his body swaying from side to side amid the storm of huge arpeggioed harmonies that came crashing overhead and round.”

3. fiil To produce arpeggios; to produce sounds resembling arpeggios.

   “Herr Schlitz seated himself on the piano chair, pushed it a little back, drew it a little forward to the original place, looked under the piano at the pedals, took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and hands, and after arpeggioing up and down the keyboard, swung into a waltz of Chopin’s […]”

4. fiil To move (the hand or fingers) against a surface as if playing arpeggios on a keyboard; to touch different points in succession along a surface.

   “Her hand was still arpeggioing softly on his arm.”