different between arpeggio vs arpeggiation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian arpeggio, from arpeggiare (“to play a harp”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???p?.d?i.o?/

Noun

arpeggio (plural arpeggios or arpeggi)

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

Translations

See also

• broken chord

Verb

arpeggio (third-person singular simple present arpeggios, present participle arpeggioing, simple past and past participle arpeggioed)

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

   Synonym: arpeggiate

   • 1819, Abraham Rees (ed.), The Cyclopædia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 14, entry “Fingering on Keyed Instruments,”^[2]

     In practising quick passages, the fingers should be lifted up with a spring, and not allowed to hang on the keys, till wanted again, unless in arpeggioing chords, or in passages of expression.

   • 1872, Samuel Butler, Erewhon, London: Trübner, Chapter 4, p. 29,^[3]

     […] 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.

   • 1902, Booth Tarkington, The Two Vanrevels, New York: McClure, Phillips, Chapter 1, p. 11,^[4]

     […] having finished her piano-forte practice, touched her harp twice, and arpeggioed the Spanish Fandango on her guitar, Miss Betty read two paragraphs of “Gilbert” […]

   • 1990, Marcel Montecino, Big Time, New York: William Morrow, Book 3, p. 197,^[5]

     When his fingers touched the piano, he formed a D7 chord, arpeggioed it up the inversions, then started singing and playing the “Happy Birthday” song.

2. (intransitive) To produce arpeggios; to produce sounds resembling arpeggios.
   • 1898, Edward Noyes Westcott, David Harum, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 37, p. 314,^[6]

     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 […]

   • 1909, O. Henry, “Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking” in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, p. 357,^[7]

     The soaring sound [of the whistling] rippled and trilled and arpeggioed as the songs of wild birds do not;

   • 2012, Roshi Fernando, “At the Barn Dance” in Homesick, New York: Vintage, p. 166,^[8]

     The accordion player arpeggioed through a chord […]

3. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) 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.
   • 1931, Kate O’Brien, Without My Cloak, London: Penguin, 1987, Book 2, Chapter 8, p. 187,^[9]

     Her hand was still arpeggioing softly on his arm.

   • 1966, Richard Lancaster, Piegan: A Look from Within at the Life, Times, and Legacy of an American Indian Tribe, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, p. 168,^[10]

     the prickle of horripilation which arpeggioed my spine as I came barrelling down the hill from that ghost house

   • 2009, Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Hidden Roads, London: Quercus, p. 136,^[11]

     While we thanked him for having us and told him the car was packed, and so on, he arpeggioed his stumpy fingers across his scarlet blanket.

Translations

Anagrams

• geropiga

Italian

Etymology

From the verb arpeggiare, from arpa.

Noun

arpeggio m (plural arpeggi)

1. arpeggio

Descendants

• ? English: arpeggio
• ? French: arpège
  • ? Persian: ????? (ârpež)
  • ? Turkish: arpej
• ? Portuguese: arpejo
• ? Russian: ????????? (arpédžio)
  • ? Kazakh: ???????? (arpedjïo)
• ? Spanish: arpegio

Verb

arpeggio

1. first-person singular present indicative of arpeggiare

Anagrams

• pareggio, pareggiò, peggiora, piaggerò, poggerai, poggiare

Portuguese

Noun

arpeggio m (plural arpeggios)

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of arpejo

English

Etymology

arpeggiate +? -ion

Noun

arpeggiation (countable and uncountable, plural arpeggiations)

1. (music) The act of arpeggiating, of spreading a chord out instead of playing the notes simultaneously.

Related terms

• arpeggio
• arpeggiate
• arpeggiato
• arpeggiator

Translations