| 单词 | arpeggio |
| 例句 | That learning about the Pythagorean theorem and arpeggios and dissecting worms is the only thing that could keep her mind off it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They conduct the genome, thereby playing out its music—activating the viola at the fourteenth minute, a crash of cymbals during the arpeggio, a roll of drums at the crescendo. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He balanced pennies on top of my wrists so I would keep them still as I slowly played scales and arpeggios. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The tune, somehow, is immediately wrenching, its measures plead in near arpeggios, and like any good folk song it makes the voice of its singer sound lost, or forlorn, incomplete. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I practice chords and arpeggios, scales and phrases, until finally, she takes me deeply into the lesson for the day—a Mozart concerto this time. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z It crackles, and a stormy arpeggio from the final movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata bursts forth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhly’s style combines a talent for complex yet transparent choral writing with Minimalist arpeggios and repetitions. So Much Traveling, With No Clear Destination 2011-02-11T16:57:37Z As the wives sing in fragmented phrases, trying to stay on message, the orchestra breaks into frenetic arpeggios, an audacious touch. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z The swooping arpeggios of the closing section, “Three,” give the work a giddy, exhilarating send-off. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuts two works from two ‘uncommon’ women 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z And Ms. Shaw’s work “To the Hands” contains a movement of spoken numerical figures — data about displaced people around the world — over a solo instrument’s arpeggios that oscillate between beautiful order and unnerving dissonance. Three Composers on the Necessity and Pitfalls of Political Music 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Shaw is at ease with Glass' arpeggios and rhythmic procedures. L.A. Phil explores Minimalism to maximal effect at Disney Hall 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The music evokes a boat atop rolling ocean waves through rippling piano arpeggios that build and crest across the entire keyboard. | Martina Filjak: Birthday Gift: New York Debut 2009-12-17T05:42:00Z You can barely move for arpeggios and glissandos, and it makes us think of Rick Wakeman in a tussle with Rinse FM. New band of the day – Lockah (No 1,451) 2013-02-13T15:56:40Z Its title is apt: much of the piece is about shifting textures — slowly sliding chordal figures; brash, fortissimo string scraping; pianissimo arpeggios — and eerie, hard-to-define tonalities. Music Review: An Extravagant Farewell to Summer 2010-09-03T22:47:00Z It's useless to play a long tremolo on the mandolin while the other musicians play the same thing, so I chose to play with the harpsichord's arpeggios. In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Avi Avital aims to reshape the sound of classical music 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z A few chords, an arpeggio or two, served as a warm-up as well as allowing the audience to settle down. 100 Years After Debussy’s Death, He Remains the First ‘Modern’ Composer 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z “Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony,” from 1979, knitted together isolated chords, arpeggios and rhythmic components from Beethoven’s nine symphonies into a single grand tribute. Pierre Henry, Composer Who Found the Music in Sounds, Dies at 89 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Think of the relentless surging waterfall of Philip Glass’s arpeggios or the billboard-bright neon glow of Steve Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians.” Review: ‘Theater of the World’ Journeys With a Polymath 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Don’t quit before you get to Part 2; Monk’s solo is a seminar in his language of chiming dissonance, off-the-cliff arpeggios and fistfuls of clanking harmony. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Dives Into a Fresh Era, and 15 More New Songs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Undertones of the blues crop up briefly, often tossed into an impressionist thicket of arpeggios and wandering lines. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z There’s a bird outside practicing his arpeggios, soon to join the dawn chorus. Forced branches can bring a bit of early spring indoors 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z David Banner's from Mississippi, and K.R.I.T. acknowledges that, but his seething verbal vigor and slow-burn piano arpeggios make him the state's new rap Jesus. The three best songs on "K.R.I.T. Wuz Here" 2010-05-26T20:46:00Z Every note in his sparkling arpeggios was a polished little gem. At Seattle Symphony: Elliott Carter premiere, rousing Rossini | Classical review 2013-02-08T17:56:18Z So the duo applied the same kind of musical cross-pollination responsible for its gold-certified 1997 debut album "Homework" and commercial breakthrough "Discovery" to recording violin arpeggios, surging horns and roiling timpani. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z The musical thought is alternately thorny and otherworldly, with percussive taps and fast-as-light arpeggio strums making it sound, at times, as though Johannesson is handling more than one instrument. Guitarist offers guide to Icelandic strings 2010-04-08T20:17:00Z In the first, Mr. Sciarrino, clearly inspired by Paganini’s dazzling violin caprices, writes an avant-garde equivalent, with whirlwinds of jagged, scratchy-toned arpeggios that flow into slinky, sliding tones, then erupt in staccato madness. Review: A Tiny Garage Explodes in Pianistic Madness 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z “Self Portrait in Ultramarine” begins with arpeggios that suggest church organs, submerging and resurfacing amid pools of whooshing pink noise while deeper bass tones loom. The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Over a slow, chiming simple guitar melody, itself atop a secondary arpeggio riff that serves subtly to remind of R.E.M.’s similarly themed “Everybody Hurts,” Garvey likewise urges his subject to stay in there. The genius of Elbow, the band Coldplay wishes it could be 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Four compositions from Redhooker’s second CD, “Vespers,” showed Mr. Griesgraber’s style: the steady arpeggios, slow harmonic motion and simple melodies of Minimalism wielded with a pop-inspired concision, and a dreamy looseness emphasized with electronic effects. Music Review: New Kids: One Behaved, One, Eh 2011-05-27T20:51:08Z Kieran Hebden goes all Steve Reich on us on Four Tet's Circling, creating a expanse of rippling harmony while banks of arpeggios whirl. Readers recommend: songs about circles – results 2012-08-09T12:04:00Z At the beginning of Mr. Paterson’s work, each instrument inhabits its own distinct sound world: the harp produces rolling arpeggios; the flute plays graceful, slightly exotic melodies; and the viola offers brusque, combative counterpoint. Music Review: Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church - review 2011-08-26T22:30:32Z He wasn’t into stamina shows and power-drill arpeggios; playing his own songs, with simple-sounding, singsong melodies, he went into them methodically, investigating modes and intervals and texture, moving through at a saunter. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Stone Temple Pilots and Steve Lacy 2010-05-30T21:14:00Z Sitting astride her piano bench, Amos alternated between a grand piano and an electric keyboard, playing rumbling, percussive bass chords and spiraling right-hand arpeggios that traversed up and down octaves. Tori Amos at Chicago Theatre 2011-12-11T13:40:00Z Mr. Glasper meshed its groove with Minimalist repetition of percussive chords and arpeggios and a suggestion of “A Love Supreme” — a more benign Western intervention. Seun Kuti at the Highline Ballroom 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Steady keyboard arpeggios and a moody backdrop of strings carry the album’s first single, “Breathe You in My Dreams,” a confession of solitary longing that crests in an urgent call and response. New Music: New Albums by Trixie Whitley and Kris Kristofferson 2013-01-28T22:36:50Z Only after an extended bit of this quizzical music do the other two strings join in, first playing bits of arpeggios, then landing on sustained tones to provide harmonic support. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z The piece explores rippling arpeggio chords in both hands, through which a soft-spoken melodic line is heard, traced by the top note in the right hand. Review: Beatrice Rana, a Young Pianist, Holds Carnegie Rapt 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Its music is an ultraromantic pop pastiche of French impressionist composers, from Debussy to Fauré, and consists largely of flowery, continuously modulating arpeggios attached to wandering melodies. Music Review: The Dark Lady and Judy Garland Play the Muses 2010-12-07T22:15:00Z Opening with a reverb-drenched guitar arpeggio and then plunging into overdrive, it had the band sounding loose, on the verge of rushing the tempo. Music Review: Revisiting and Recharging an Album With a Fleshed-Out Crew 2011-03-27T22:14:47Z Galactic images accompanied rapid arpeggios in the vibraphones. Review: Daniel Wohl’s ‘Holographic’ Is Performed for the First Time 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z For instance, the “nature” leitmotif, a rising major arpeggio, opens the opera and is associated with the majesty and life of the rushing river Rhine. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Or he surrounds the vocals with keyboard arpeggios and synth glissandos, as he does on Up in Your Mix. New band of the day ? No 1,273: Two Inch Punch 2012-05-18T11:27:00Z With twinkling arpeggios fortified by bubbly rhythm, in the style perhaps best described as “iPad commercial,” the song presents what seems at first blush like a pickup anthem, an ode to blithe submission. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-04T22:04:46Z Though the songs were built on instrumental and vocal repetition, the set was diverse, pivoting from 1960s pop to hip-hop to a ballad accompanied by harp arpeggios. Review: Panda Bear’s Bloops and Swirls Usher In Another CMJ Music Marathon 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Her conversational arpeggios of gravity and mirth are delivered with such a sparkle that you know she's only half serious. Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z The sections of “Infinite Love,” a continuous 40-minute composition, tend to start with plucked arpeggios and expand, sometimes taking on a melody, sometimes rippling in ever-wider arcs, sometimes melting into feedback and echo. Playlist: Younger Folk, Older Folk, Noises Tempered and Psychedelic 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z An Opera Center for Practicing as Well as Performing No more arpeggios in the bathroom. National Opera Center Is to Open in Manhattan 2012-09-14T16:47:40Z Ms. Choi imbued the opening rising arpeggio with such tense energy that it sounded like an urgent question. Review: A Quartet With Sunny Energy and Grunge-Band Grit 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The piano accompaniments are often thick with cascading arpeggios and rippling repeated-chord riffs. Critic?s Notebook: City Opera Begins Season With Rufus Wainwright 2011-11-18T21:43:07Z He's a superb classical technician, someone who can turn jazz standards into Bach-like fugues, all spidery left-hand arpeggios and complex right-hand workouts. Brad Mehldau Trio – review 2012-11-15T18:02:08Z Like a de facto piano concerto, Hummel’s septet bustles with rippling passagework, decorative scales, cascading arpeggios and, in the rustic finale, bursts of dancing octaves. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s also an entirely different production of the song — farewell to new wave guitars and synthesizers, hello to keyboard arpeggios and a new, more introspective transparency, at least at first. The Playlist: Bob Dylan’s New Song and Merle Haggard’s Final Recording 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z One flurry of low arpeggios sounded like a full cello section. Review: Peter Evans Teaches His Trumpet a New Vocabulary 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Other electronic artists are returning to the sound: “Strong,” a song by the xx singer Romy and the British producer Fred again.. employs the genre’s sky-high arpeggios and penchant for feather-light vocals and inspirational lyrics. Trance Music Is Coming Back. Evian Christ Is Part of the Revival. 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Once in a while, Avital departed from merely tracing the solo violin part, playing arpeggios in the slow movement of “Autumn.” How much difference can one mandolin make? Bowl audience hears a fresh spin on 'Four Seasons' 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The introduction suggests enchantment, with rippling arpeggios on the harp. The Sugar Plum Fairy: An Enigma Wrapped in a Beautiful Dance 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z But it is the opening fanfare, a dotted rising arpeggio, that is most identified with the aria’s promise of resurrection. In Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ the Trumpet as Divine Agent 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z At the first reading of the first act, Sondheim plays the entire score so far, which consists of four arpeggios — about 10 seconds of music. Sunday in the Trenches With George 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z While the austere dissonance never truly leaves the piece, Ehnes' light touch on the rising and falling violin arpeggios sounded like someone throwing a single thread of spider web over the moon. Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival presents concert of darkness, light 2011-07-28T19:25:04Z The needles on the sound desk hopped to the song's distinctive bluegrass chop while fiddle player Gabe Witcher made arpeggios flutter like birds. Ready to be heard 2012-02-12T00:05:15Z “Oh my hopeless wanderer,” she sings at the start of the track, tracing an upward arpeggio in a minor key. The Playlist: Burial and Laura Marling Slip Deeper Into the Void 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z They teased out the lustrous gleam of her rolling arpeggios, the enchanting lightness of pizzicato tossed from player to player, the blazing lyricism accompanied by passionate vibrato. Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z A white-haired skater creature starts to assemble a drumkit on the rocks to a pastoral arpeggio and the sound of a dabbling brook. Can you decipher Animal Collective's visual album ODDSAC? 2010-05-10T10:21:00Z Across the lawn, music students could be heard practicing arpeggios in the former clubhouse of the golf course. ‘Cubanacán’ Imagines When Che and Fidel Compared Golf Swings 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z There are no traditional signposts of rhythm, melody or harmonic motion, just a lone, fleeting and recurring piano arpeggio, played with delicate gravitas by Ms. Ray. Music Review: Eclipse Quartet Performs at Roulette 2012-05-22T22:05:04Z Early on, I fluff some arpeggios and I hear him gasp in a completely involuntary way. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z Buck's guitar-playing was as much about arpeggios and ringing overtones as more conventional rock riffing. Post-punk landscape: Before there was a Nirvana, R.E.M. blazed the trail 2011-09-22T16:34:37Z Pentatonic arpeggios pile up in multiple keys; a polytonal roar escalates and evaporates. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Norman paged through the score and demonstrated snippets of these changing channels on his piano — languid arpeggios, spindly runs, hiccupping circus music, haunting chords. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Sometimes the piano broke into spiraling flourishes, like Ravel gone vehement, or arpeggio madness, like spliced-together outtakes from a recording of a Tchaikovsky concerto. Review: Andrew Norman’s ‘Split,’ a Teeming Premiere From the New York Philharmonic 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z But bursts of activity — riffs and arpeggios from the marimba, vibraphone and two pianos — keep jostling the bucolic harmonies. Music Review: On the Express Train to Hell and Other Sonic Journeys 2010-12-05T23:14:00Z Dinnerstein rolled out the deliberate arpeggios and rushing surges of Philip Glass’s “Mad Rush,” and accompanied Fleming in a set of five songs altogether more memorable than “Penelope.” A Day of Divas 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z “Biscuits” is good, clean fun—lilting banjo arpeggio, stomping kick drum, a rush of “oooh”s in the backup vocals—but, apart from a sly reference to pot, it has been scrubbed of social commentary. Kacey Musgraves, Harper Lee, and the Home-town Dilemma 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The grandeur and power of this concerto were fully realized, yet Bronfman also drew back for lyrical, sensitive playing: delicate, quicksilver arpeggios, as well as keyboard thunder and lightning. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The rolling arpeggios in the “Emperor” Piano Concerto are the most prominent tattoos. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z But Mr. Burhans short-circuits Mr. Glass’s penchant for meditative repetition, dispatching his wheeling arpeggios and floating melodic cells with a pop song’s economy, brisk pace and emotional effusiveness. Music Review: Alarm Will Sound Oozes With Resolve at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-06-16T21:50:06Z There’s one section in the second act that falls back, unfortunately, on the motoric arpeggios of Philip Glass. Music Review: An Alchemist Reaches Out Across Centuries 2011-07-03T19:14:09Z It starts with the pianos shimmering again, over flares of brasses that build tension until a wave of arpeggios flows from the pianists. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Singers warmed up with arpeggios to the words “kosher sushi.” Massaging 1,000 Voices Into Lincoln Center’s Choral Miracle 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z With the glistening, rippling runs and arpeggios at which he excels, he played a chamber arrangement, accompanied by players from his Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra. Daniel Barenboim - review 2011-04-08T23:51:33Z The rapid, agitated arpeggios and elegant melodies played by violinist Tim Fain, who also performed on the recorded score, justified the endeavor. ‘Moonlight’ screens to live music, packed crowd at downtown L.A.’s Million Dollar Theatre 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z To underscore each of these spoken words, Mr. Sondheim comes up with a pungent chord built from five notes played in arpeggio. Why You’ll Probably Never Hear a Sondheim Concerto 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The final movement is at first all cascading arpeggios, punctuated by stretches of elfin dances. Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Gives a Thoughtful Recital at Carnegie Hall 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z He does not stint on beautiful things — major arpeggios, soul-chord progressions, lines that flow and breathe — and his keyboard touch is rounded and gorgeous, a feeling you remember. Playlist Ben Ratliff: New CDs From Jade Alston, Jeremy Pelt and Alcest 2012-01-13T16:26:28Z It was the group’s first gig in Manhattan, and it performed long, howling songs with falsetto vocals that floated above tribal drums and swirling guitar arpeggios. Cake Shop, a Club for New Music, Is Looking for Financing 2012-05-30T22:07:30Z For one thing, the familiar stentorian piano chords that accompany the opening soaring melody in the violins are not so loud in the second version and are played as arpeggios, or rolled chords. Classical CDs: Gerstein, Gaffigan do justice to Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z His playing tends to swirl, almost mistlike, with sprinkled melodic phrases, flickering harmonies and rolling arpeggios implying a groove rather than stating it. Gerard Way Sneers at the Apocalypse, and 12 More New Songs 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, Mr. Glass’s tumbling arpeggios and shifting rhythmic currents posed no threat to her. Music Review: A Night of Newer Works, With a Glance to the Past 2011-04-22T22:10:09Z Wind movements were animated by eddies of rippling arpeggios enveloped in placid streams of fused voices. Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Then other layers materialized from two more guitars, bass and drums: overlapping arpeggios, brief melodic lines, drumbeats that tapped lightly and grew increasingly martial and, sooner or later, the frenetic shimmer of tremolo-strummed chords. Music Review: Guitar Rock, Stretched on the Canvas of a Big Stage 2011-04-07T21:56:34Z On the line, “I love you and you love me and that’s how it will always be and nothing else could ever mean a thing,” Mr. Bennett sings the line using a spiraling, ascending arpeggio. Tony Bennett and Diana Krall Croon and Contrast on New Duet Album 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z It opened with the meter-shifting, harmonically labyrinthine song “The Sloth” and the quick arpeggios of “You Enjoy Myself,” demonstrating its ensemble precision; it also jammed vigorously on basic two-chord grooves. Music Review: Phish at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-12-31T00:27:32Z In “Year of Sky,” blipping synthesizers evolve into Philip Glass-style organ arpeggios as Hval — in her highest, most childlike register — strives to perceive both the minute insect realm and the expanding universe. Jenny Hval Makes Ideas Sing 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The accessible but never ingratiating music echoes the sense of wonder and wit that infuses Ms. Chinn’s performance, with spacious chords and swirling arpeggios underpinning her dark-hued mezzo. Music in Review: ‘Science Fair,’ Jeremy Denk and the Emerson String Quartet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Grisey's three-part score for piano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello may be vastly more complex than "Become Ocean," but both spring from a briny sea of arpeggios. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z He eventually recovered partial use of three fingers on his right hand and learned to compensate by using his left hand to play textured chords and rolling arpeggios. Horace Parlan, jazz pianist who overcame disability, dies at 86 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z His sound, with its flowing arpeggios and churning rhythms, has remained easily identifiable through the decades. The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Braids’ songs revolve around loops and layers of guitars and keyboards, setting up cascading arpeggios and pointillistic cross-currents, pulsating drones and stereophonic ripples. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z He drums his fingers on the table, as though executing an imaginary arpeggio. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z For much of the first half of the evening, the listener was wrapped in a cocoon of consonance, rocked by undulating arpeggios and drip-fed bittersweet melodies. Review: Locrian Chamber Players, With Music Wrapped in Temporary Mystery 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z But a little is lost in the process, too, especially the rich depth of the cello’s low register, and the spatial dimension spun from the string crossings during those recurring, ruminating arpeggios. Classical Playlist: Puccini, Messiaen, Schubert and More 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The musical elements each chose to focus on — resonance, for instance; or progression; or the particular camber of an arpeggio — seemed drawn from a common pool. Composers’ Collectives Offer Creativity and Challenges 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Abduraimov did, plunging in with a smashing, unified account full of fire that also left room for subtle touches and finally the most delicate of arpeggios. At the Hollywood Bowl, a young piano virtuoso draws fire alongside the L.A. Phil 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z One guitarist spent much of the set picking high, reverberating arpeggios, pinging like distant bells. CMJ 2014: The Out-of-Town Advantage for Happyness, the Crookes and Money 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Kihlstedt opened with “Hush, Hush,” a lullaby that blended smoky arpeggios with an innocent yet unsettling singing style that brought to mind the voice of Bjork. Music Review: Carla Kihlstedt at the New York Festival of Song 2012-11-17T00:26:28Z Schubert’s quartet never quotes the Maiden’s verse, which gets its due in the first movement of “Pige,” a series of phrases that start and disintegrate in wispy fragments and fading arpeggios. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z It’s just guitar and voice, Angel Olsen picking slow, tentative arpeggios like the skeleton of a soul ballad as she sing about the aftermath of a heartbreak. Mariah Carey Calls for Action, and 12 More New Songs 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Impressionistic string arpeggios, along with other rapid figures, moody thick chords and glissandi pervade much of the piece. Salonen's 'Pollux' supplies some grunge for L.A. Phil tour 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z All the fast arpeggios are played by a computerized piano bank from Abbey Road. Godzilla, Alan Turing and more move to Alexandre Desplat's music 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z In the finale, the beguiling theme pierced through the hazy harmonies of Mr. Andsnes’s fluid, graceful arpeggios. Music Review: Norwegian Pianist Takes a Deeper Dip Into Beethoven 2011-04-08T22:00:21Z But through it all, American Eagle, which was founded in 1977, has remained Gap-like in its commitment to affordable basics, increasingly with arpeggios of flair. 2010-02-04T01:59:00Z The song itself is luminous, its quiet power emanating from the guitarist Justin Canavan’s nimble arpeggios and Woods’s melodic incantation, “I’m better, I’m better, I’m better, I’m better.” Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Take Control, and 10 More New Songs 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Chopin writes a couple of announcing chords, and then a long, free, drifting arpeggio. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z On the recording, propulsive, shifting arpeggios come off as sluggish, with lapses of legato phrasing. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Her extraordinarily liquid, sensitive playing — engrossing even in Massenet’s endlessly burbling arpeggios — was the real reason to use Symphony Space as shelter from the storm. Music Review: Damien Top and Linda Hall at Symphony Space 2012-09-10T02:23:04Z “I want the music to soar here,” Jenkins had told him, and the result was those rhapsodic violin arpeggios. ‘Moonlight’ screens to live music, packed crowd at downtown L.A.’s Million Dollar Theatre 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Gosfield, long a quirky voice on the downtown New York scene, zoned in on exactly what the Naughtons do best, which is mirror each other and produce dazzling cascades of percussive arpeggios. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla takes the lead in an inspired women's night with the L.A. Phil 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Buck’s guitar-playing was as much about arpeggios and ringing overtones as more conventional rock riffing. R.E.M. breaks up, leaves behind career that balanced hits, integrity 2011-09-21T21:46:00Z Once in a while, you’ll hear him dropping in a darkened harmony or playing swirling, chaotic arpeggios. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z His tracks borrow from all over the place: trance-music synthesizer arpeggios in “Run the Heart,” rockabilly reverb in “A/B Machines,” metal power chords in “Treats,” hardcore guitar frenzy in “Straight A’s.” Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z The orchestra rustles with spiraling, jagged arpeggios and frenetic ascending riffs — grounded, just barely, by pedal tones that swell and then disappear. Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z It seems like a lot, but the elements wove together naturally: the city’s restlessness; the dizzying video; Chase’s arpeggios, amplified and, through electronics, feeding one another in waves of sound that transformed into clashing ripples. Review: ‘Density’ Keeps Expanding the Flute’s Universe 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z The first single from Jon Batiste’s forthcoming album, “Hollywood Africans,” stays anchored to a set of tolling, somber arpeggios on the piano, never bubbling over into a funk groove or a power-ballad roar. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z At first it’s tentative — chords and pauses, the clatter of a rainstick — but other, more ominous sounds crowd in: distorted guitar, insistent drums, rumbly low arpeggios. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Each word is accompanied, almost musically illustrated, by a variant of a five-note arpeggio figure that uncannily embodies each concept. Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z On a hybrid of Home Computer and It's More Fun to Compute, the chattering arpeggios multiply, twist and wind like Escher staircases. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night five: Computer World 2013-02-12T15:13:31Z There’s both flowing arpeggios and droning underneath Time’s climactic surreal monologue, summing up eons of Earth’s history. Review: In ‘You Us We All,’ a Symbolic Hope Writes to Pop Divas 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Later, the instruments broke into cascading, manic arpeggios and obsessive swirls of hyper-fast notes. Review: The Composer Tristan Perich’s Proudly Lo-Fi Electronic Sounds 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Elsewhere the allusions feel more rooted in the realm of music, as when “House of Metal” coalesces around a dolorous, slow-to-unfold arpeggio, evoking Portishead. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z Beginning with the second set of Impromptus, Ax showed how even the most unassuming arpeggio or bass-line progression draws its expressive qualities from Schubert's inexhaustible lyrical flow. Emanuel Ax ? review 2011-03-23T17:43:10Z It begins mysteriously, as the violin plays cosmic-sounding harmonics that float high and low, like spectral arpeggios. Review: At 20, In Mo Yang Makes His New York Recital Debut 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z But here, from the Prelude's first expansive arpeggios, Gerhardt was gentle and inspired, and seemed to breathe the phrases as though singing a melody. Alban Gerhardt ? review 2011-04-12T17:27:59Z The genres appear comfortable in a sonic rut – the raveish synthesisers that added an icy edge to Rihanna's Umbrella, Auto-Tuned vocals, arpeggios of 'rock' guitar – while the rest of pop music has caught up. Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday 2010-11-22T15:27:00Z The language is made up of Mr. Glass’s trademark undulating arpeggios and cloudy modulations but never builds up to the transcendent poetry of his music for the Gandhi opera “Satyagraha.” Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z There were fine moments, like the subdued introduction to the first movement and the mysterious diminished arpeggio section of the second, but overall the playing was too loud and too harried in pacing. Touring Marlboro string quartet delights in first half of program 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z As shimmering guitar arpeggios rise and fall, he bewails the heartache of returning to a loved one who will hurt him, and whom he will hurt. Readers recommend: songs about repetition ? the results 2011-03-17T16:30:02Z Without the concentration of his early works, without mesmerizing stretches of repetition, the noodling arpeggios seem just so many swatches of musical wallpaper slapped together, some colorful, some merely odd. Music Review: World Science Festival Opens at Alice Tully Hall 2010-06-03T22:59:00Z The slower selections were some of the most memorable moments, like the aptly named lullaby “Song” and, in “Fairy Tale,” Mr. Tetzlaff’s melody wandering serenely over Ms. Weithaas’s eerie arpeggios. Music Review: Violinists Wander Into Bartok, and Well Off the Beaten Path 2011-05-02T22:06:51Z Over an ambling arpeggio, a melodic chord progression pads softly in the background and hi-hats ripple dramatically, wrapping the central sound of the song, a keyboard octave that reads as a repeated gleam. Music Monday: Jarv Dee, Basic, Kanye West 2010-08-16T18:24:00Z He first began writing down music — “lots and lots of what looked like arpeggios,” she said — around 4. Richard Rodney Bennett, British Composer, Dies at 76 2012-12-30T22:57:38Z On the unaccompanied ballad “Goodbye,” his sprinkled arpeggios and peripatetic left hand turn the tune’s minor harmonies into an affirmation. After Vanishing, Johnny O’Neal Has a New York Following Again 2014-05-01T23:30:47Z There were some twinkly synthesizer arpeggios as Bassnectar’s two-and-a-half-hour set began, along with the sampled promise that recurs throughout a signature Bassnectar track, “The Matrix”: “We drop bass in your face.” Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z She injected arpeggios and other ornaments, large and small, with unfailing smoothness. New York Philharmonic and Dianne Reeves on New Year’s Eve 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z A wordless cry at the start of “This Woman’s Work” became a formal device, sampled and transformed into a drift of ghostly arpeggios. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z In “St. Francis of Assisi’s Sermon to the Birds,” the little birds attending the saint are evoked by soft, gossamer trills, arpeggios and tremolos in the piano’s high register. The problem with a pianist who plays loudly or softly but not in between 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z But in between he went instrumental, layering the steady beat with Minimalist arpeggios and percussion textures, revealing tiers of pulse and syncopation, blurring and focusing sounds to carry the music into a wilderness of rhythms. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival at Citi Field 2013-05-19T22:05:31Z Between its chanted verses, “Home Computer” goes abstract; with a beat, tinkly sounds and cheerfully dissonant arpeggios, who needs a chorus? Florian Schneider’s 10 Essential Songs, in Kraftwerk and Beyond 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Droning synthesizer arpeggios added a certain slo-mo build, and for at least one person who'd never listened to !!! before or seen the band live — me — everything clicked. Capitol Hill Block Party 2010 day two notables: !!! and THEESatisfaction 2010-07-25T20:33:00Z As passionate arpeggios unspooled in the Adagio, evoking expanding vistas of space, the sound was sensuous, but tension failed to build. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z A medley of “Autumn in New York” and “Early Autumn,” arranged as a semiclassical suite, produced arpeggios of tumbling leaves and multicolored foliage. | Barbara Carroll: A Swinging, Sophisticated New York 2010-09-20T20:38:00Z The piano provides a subtle carpet, often in rushing arpeggios, that accentuates a vocal line as gently steady as Silvestre’s verse. Music Review: Damien Top and Linda Hall at Symphony Space 2012-09-10T02:23:04Z Though famously difficult to sing, the difficulty is exciting; it’s impossible not to be thrilled when a performer nails the treacherous downward arpeggios of “Buenos Aires” or the stratospheric belt of “A New Argentina.” When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z He teetered on the edge of danger in the arpeggio whirlwind of No. 12, “Ocean,” an exciting conclusion to the program. Music Review: Young Hands Tackling Chopin?s Intimidating ?tudes 2011-03-09T22:47:17Z Still, there was a valuable place for Mr. Sissoko, for the spidery movements of his fingers, for his lacework arpeggios. Music Review | Regina Carter: Grooving to African Folk With Yacouba Sissoko 2010-03-24T20:58:00Z But now her own electric guitar is at the center of the arrangements, often with just a simple picked arpeggio or a few succinct chords. New Music: New Albums by Sabina Sciubba and New Bums 2014-02-17T22:37:49Z The piece is a study in right-hand arpeggios, which race up and down the keyboard as the left hand adds a grounding bass line in octaves. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z She began the G major concerto with a classical arpeggio flourish that only emphasised the ideal weighting of the famous opening solo chords that followed. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt – review 2013-01-17T17:48:32Z "I feel very kung fu!" he chirped after pounding a series of rapid arpeggios. China's Lang Lang and Germany's Hans Zimmer come together in America to score 'Ku Fu Panda 3' 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z "This Magic Moment," for example, begins with violins doing giddy, hurricane-force arpeggios. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z Halsey’s fourth album, “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power,” announces its character from its first sounds: slowly tolling piano arpeggios with a few notes flatted into dissonance. Backed by Nine Inch Nails, Halsey Connects Past and Future 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The Prelude of Bach’s Suite No. 1 for solo cello is mostly a sequence of chords played in flowing arpeggio figures. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z In the first movement, the piano purveyed rippling arpeggios, a Glassian trademark, while the strings worked through melodic figures. Review: Chiara Quartet Says Farewell on a High Note 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Compared with past movement leaders — Barack Obama, say — he’s a forceful rather than lyrical speaker, his voice a Brooklyn-style poke in the chest, his music power chords rather than soaring arpeggios. Boos, Cheers and Talk Therapy for the Democrats in Philadelphia 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z The music is an elaborate, evolving sigh, starting with low-fi, oompah piano chords that grow entwined with guitar arpeggios and a choir of “aah”s. ‘Evermore,’ Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore’ Sequel, Is a Journey Deeper Inward 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Certainly “Autumn Leaves” was among his most soothing, with its cascading arpeggios evoking falling leaves. Roger Williams, Pianist Known for Sentimental Songs, Dies at 87 2011-10-09T16:23:03Z On their fourth album, “Ordinary Corrupt Human Love,” released on July 13, this San Francisco metal band sounds almost tender: Layers of delicate, jam-ready arpeggios organically evolve into displays of intense, all-systems-go virtuosity. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The consoling shadow of Bach looms large in the first movement, reflected in a series of unaccompanied agitated arpeggios and searching scales, which Ms. Koh played with robust refinement. Jennifer Koh Accompanies the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Delicate arpeggios set the mood, followed by a wandering melodic passage, until we hear rustling figures that spin and flow in the high register of the piano almost continuously. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z This “Snow,” heard here in its American premiere, presents broad, expansive lines for the bass instruments, with sudden upward “snow flurries” of arpeggios for more treble instruments. Review: At Seattle Symphony, a winning night from opener to encore 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z She and RocketNumberNine had recast the song, trading its original scratching hip-hop production for Minimalistic arpeggios and a sustained synthesizer undertow. Neneh Cherry at the Highline Ballroom 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z The first movement of Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 2 features flowing arpeggios that Mr. Siem labored over; in the elegiac second movement he lacked any discernible emotion at all. Music Review: Charlie Siem, Violinist, at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-06-26T21:11:39Z At around five minutes, before the coda, he does something extraordinary: a set of big upward arpeggios, bold wipes of sound, weird for the time. Music: Coleman Hawkins Outplays Himself in Savory Collection 2010-08-17T22:17:00Z Then winds, and then the brass, began to unsheathe arpeggios, rising patterns of notes, growing gradually louder, like encroaching waves on sand, and the women in the pool raised megaphones and began to sing. John Luther Adams’s ‘Sila’: New work occupies Lincoln Center plaza But Mendelssohn makes the piano behave here, and there are frequent violin excursions accompanied by filigreed runs and rippling arpeggios on the solicitous piano. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z I wanted to match the LSO playing live with computerized piano arpeggios and scales. Alexandre Desplat: A film score in three weeks 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z And on almost every track there’s a richness of musical detail: the multitracked vocal harmonies, the shrewdly off-kilter grooves, all those spidery bass arpeggios. New Music: Albums From Thundercat and Buika 2013-06-10T21:43:39Z The melodies, over simple left-hand arpeggios, are pristine, solemn and somehow consoling. Kanye West Dips a Toe in the Moment, and 10 More New Songs 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Cued by Mr. Chiu’s subtle nods and sharp inhalations, the musicians worked through Webernesque squiggles, grainy chords, fidgety arpeggios and the odd fortissimo outburst with an unflappable poise, seemingly oblivious to the outside world’s intrusions. Music Review: Flux Quartet Plays Morton Feldman at Bargemusic 2010-06-06T21:20:00Z In the finale, Ax flaunted his powerhouse pianism in playful passages where his chords rang like bells and his whispery arpeggios traced a filigree pattern against the night sky. Pianist Emanuel Ax, NSO woo Wolf Trap audience with Brahms 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Instead, Krug opted for repeated organ arpeggios and retro, primitive drum machines. Moonface: Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I'd Hoped - review 2011-08-11T21:00:01Z A recent Instagram post shows Luca, who started kindergarten last fall, dutifully reading sheet music as he practices arpeggios on the harp from the comfort of his living room couch. How the Harp Got Hip 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The flowingly tuneful arpeggios in those songs show the unexpected awareness of Minimalism, an effect all the more beautiful, given Mr. Kurtag’s general astringency. Music Review: Astringent Modernist Meets Instrument of Old 2011-03-08T21:21:07Z Programmed beats, tinkly bell tones, synthesizer swoops, swirling arpeggios, whistling, crunching, his own multiplied voice, whooshing gusts of white noise. Music Review: Oorutaichi Performs at Japan Society 2012-11-18T22:25:21Z Then the saxophonists each took a chorus, and here they transmitted their differences, surgical arpeggios versus smoky abstractions. Music Review: Two Saxophonists Step in as a Pair of Substitutes 2010-08-25T21:53:00Z Ferry Corsten that transforms the Adagio into an upbeat disco track, incorporating arpeggios that speed the tempo. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z Even when the characters are not singing, a few somber notes from the cello or a sprinkling of piano arpeggios give us subtle intimations of the inner turbulence in their souls. | 'A Minister's Wife': Three Hearts Butt Heads in One Marriage 2011-05-09T02:01:03Z Her lyrics start by listing what she’s not — someone’s mother, keeper, debt collector, puppeteer, rag doll — in a diaphanous tangle of acoustic-guitar arpeggios. Rihanna Inches Back to Music, and 8 More New Songs 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Roumain’s music remains a bland grab bag of Minimalist arpeggios, Romantic flourishes and cloudy textures. Music Review: Daniel Bernard Roumain at Harvey Theater - Review 2011-10-14T23:11:29Z The machine is restless: wavy as the arpeggios of the prelude bring the Rhine River to life, then reconfiguring itself as fluidly as the opera, which unfolds over four scenes with no break. The Met Opera’s ‘Ring’ Works Best From the Cheap Seats 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z She played with soulful élan in No. 2 and in No. 4, with its multiple stops, and deftly conquered the frenetic arpeggios of the fiendish No. 5, which uses a bouncing ricochet bow technique. Music Review: Rachel Barton Pine Performs at Rockefeller University 2012-03-22T21:02:22Z In the Nutcracker score, there’s delightful interplay between the string sections and the winds, and the harp arpeggios become an emotional anchor. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z Strolling across Sheep Meadow you hear a pastoral piano theme with a bubbling undercurrent of electronic arpeggios. Bluebrain?s App Central Park (Listen to the Light) 2011-12-07T23:35:57Z After sluicing through the arpeggios of Coltrane’s “Countdown” with great alacrity, he burst into an incongruous quote from “Billy Boy,” cracking up the crowd. Piano prodigy Joey Alexander proves he has all that jazz 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z The rippling arpeggios that run throughout unfold with wondrous delicacy and milky colorings, as a gentle melody flows by. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Glass’s score mixes mildly angular vocal lines into his signature torrent of swirling woodwind figures and string arpeggios, and it relies more heavily than usual on varied, assertive percussion textures and rich choral writing. Music Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Kepler’ at Spoleto Festival USA 2012-06-01T21:25:58Z After stagnating for months, Campos and Maker pushed through the block with “Break Well”, a warm track built by manually recording arpeggios to tape. Genres Collide on Mount Kimbie’s Cold Spring Fault Less Youth 2013-05-31T09:45:20Z She played a version of Thelonious Monk’s ballad “Ask Me Now,” first telegraphing the chords of the piece through unaccompanied arpeggios, thick and rolling. Music Review: Melissa Aldana Quartet at Jazz Gallery 2013-02-03T23:08:18Z A more solid sense of the piece’s direction comes once the left hand enters, trading notes with the right hand in upward arpeggios. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Some others, I just played the chord and the computer randomly plays up and down the scales, so it creates quite an interesting blend of arpeggios. Godzilla, Alan Turing and more move to Alexandre Desplat's music 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Details are fastidious; in “I Drink Wine,” she sings “I’m trying to keep climbing up” while her voice rises in an upward arpeggio. Adele Has a Lot of Big Feelings on ‘30’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z These pages are full of finger exercises, arpeggios of thought and perception. ‘The Chandelier’ Offers an Early Glimpse of Clarice Lispector’s Power 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z On “Fleer Ultra,” the most rhythmically frenetic workout in the set, he started with a waft of ethereal long tones, his sound heavily processed, before gradually moving on to spidery arpeggios and bulletlike runs. Music Review: Thundercat, No Longer a Sideman, Plays S.O.B.?s 2012-02-03T23:23:15Z Glass makes a special little rising arpeggio to animate this grave truth. The Perfect American – review 2013-06-08T23:06:02Z The short, fantastical piece was alive with trills and tremolos, rustling arpeggios, beguiling tunes and jittery dance segments driven by Bartokian cluster chords. Review: Young Concert Artists Is Back, With a Superb Pianist 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Later in the piece, as the waters become more agitated, the cascading arpeggios are like liquid running through the fingers, all shimmer and sparkle. 100 Years After Debussy’s Death, He Remains the First ‘Modern’ Composer 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The keening phrases of the flute, the arpeggios of the piano and the shimmer of the glockenspiel and vibraphone forge a wonderfully supple yet organic unity. Feldman: Crippled Symmetry – review 2012-08-15T15:35:10Z Trans-Europe Express originally opened to the gentle, magical arpeggios of Europe Endless – instead, we hear this, rather oddly, after its reprise, Endless Endless. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night three: Trans-Europe Express 2013-02-10T11:36:08Z Glass makes heavy use of arpeggios and other musical structures which play over and over in the orchestra - with gradually emerging variations - while soloists or chorus repeat their vocal lines. Glass' meditation on Gandhi returns to Met 2011-11-06T17:45:13Z It’s a dirge about inevitable, existential loneliness, set to slow, bare-bones arpeggios and funereal drum thuds, and Mercury’s voice expands it to arena scale as he moves between confidential croon and balcony-rattling rasp. Queen’s Unearthed Lament, and 6 More New Songs 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Like many of Mr. Glass’s works, this excerpt was built of streams of arpeggios and repeated major and minor chords. Music Review: Early Birthday Party for Philip Glass at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-01-30T23:10:35Z The cutlet may strike a hollow note on its own, but it will provide a steady bass line to the arpeggio flash of the accompanying salads. Review | The 10 best Ethiopian restaurants in the Washington area 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “I hope you don’t take this the wrong way,” she sang atop a glimmering synth arpeggio, “but I think your inside is your best side.” Hear Sophie’s 12 Essential Songs 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z He joined in neatly on the unison lines that were landmarks in the compositions, and he often soloed with high, wailing, bluesy lines followed by shredder arpeggios down below. Music Review: Jazz Fusion Heroes of the 1970s Resurrect Their Intricate Dynamics 2011-08-14T21:20:13Z This is a work of extreme anguish and eventual solace, in which the earthly life is compared to a tempestuous sea voyage, with rippling left-hand arpeggios to evoke the billows. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z The concert finished on an explosive note with a dazzling rendition of the Tarantella from “Venezia e Napoli,” which illuminates Liszt’s florid side with an avalanche of arpeggios, trills and gaudy cadenzas. Music Review: Liszt, the Chick Magnet, Tickled Ivories and More 2011-02-04T22:29:41Z It begins mysteriously: a lacy piano line traces a strange ascending arpeggio enshrouded by exotic orchestral harmonies. Classical Recordings: POUL RUDERS 2011-06-10T14:29:27Z Surrounded by swirling, twinkling, glimmering arpeggios, Little Dragon’s Yuki Nagano sings about sheer rapture: “Glowing in the dark to find streams of stars to taste.” Taylor Swift’s Revised ‘Revenge,’ and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z In repeated passages, he would play a thumping low octave with his left hand, then sweep up the keyboard in a burst of dizzying arpeggios, landing on a crackling high note. Review: Murray Perahia at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Perky synthesizer arpeggios, a confident guitar line and a broad-shouldered drumbeat promise something cheerful. Björk Insists on Connection, and 11 More New Songs 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The cello version is the keeper; brawny arpeggios and rhythmic chords delivered by a pair of cellists including none other than Yo-Yo Ma. Tame Impala’s Disco-Prog Shrug, and 9 More New Songs 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Morales receded at times into the ensemble, emerging again to produce subtle arpeggios or a rising line that gradually emerged as a solo. Seattle chamber-music fest returns in fine form 2013-07-01T19:00:11Z It's epic, intense stuff, but the drum artillery and synth arpeggios are given a pop shape and it's dynamic enough to sound good shrunk down to fit on radio. New band of the day ? No 821: Kid Adrift 2010-07-08T16:38:00Z Played with the sustaining pedal, the short arpeggio figures turn the prelude into a hazy, lapping chorale. Music Review: András Schiff Plays ‘Well-Tempered Clavier,’ at 92nd Street Y 2012-10-28T21:36:40Z Dance, finds Mr. Iyer tracing a series of arpeggios with the lurching, tumbling cadence of a heavy gear turned by hand. Critic?s Notebook: ?Accelerando? by the Vijay Iyer Trio 2012-03-14T22:16:29Z The first begins with manic bursts of arpeggios that sweep up the keyboard and cascade down in crystalline riffs, finally breaking into a restless melodic line that unfurls amid rustling figurations and teeming chords. Review: A Teenage Virtuoso Prevails in a Liszt Endurance Test 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z A piano player works on a mezzanine, showering the dining room with arpeggios from Bach and other “great composers.” In This Norwegian Novel, an Old-School Waiter Tries to Keep Up the Old Ways 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z “He is a singer on his instrument. The way he would squawk or screech is like a blues singer. His melodic, lyrical approach feels more oral than scales and arpeggios,” he said. At 81, jazz titan Archie Shepp’s legacy comes into clear focus 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z When I got on the train at 57th Street in Manhattan at 7 p.m., a bearded cellist in a green sweater had just begun to play the prelude’s familiar, sinuous arpeggios. Make Music Winter Brings Music Outdoors 2011-12-22T23:27:08Z This work begins with rolling, rippling arpeggios through which a wistful melody threads. Music Review: Exploring Complex Works, Before You?ve Even Had Your Coffee 2011-01-17T22:07:33Z As an encore, Mr. Hadelich played Paganini’s solo Caprice No. 1, a whirlwind of nonstop arpeggios, dispatched with precision and panache. Review: A Fast-Rising Czech Conductor Leads the Philharmonic 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z It begins with spare melancholy before building to a final section that ties flowing Minimalist-style arpeggios with rhapsodic cello effusions: cool and warm, united. Review: For Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough, a New York Debut 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Strike one of its eight stones with a drumstick and the sound can be transformed into arpeggios, electronic echoes, you name it. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z Judge Klausner also wrongly told jurors that copyright does not protect chromatic scales, arpeggios or short sequences of three notes, the Ninth Circuit panel found. Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Case Goes Back to Trial 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z At the start, quavering arpeggios in the strings are transferred to the piano and the vibraphone; the shift is so smooth you hardly notice. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble at MoMA’s Summergarden 2012-07-09T22:28:41Z So it was no shock that his control was sovereign in three Chopin Nocturnes, each slight shift in dynamics minutely calibrated, each step in his arpeggios individual but melting seductively into the others. Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z As a result, there was a refreshing amount of air in the gurgling arpeggios of the Impromptu in G flat. Review: Pianist Ursula Oppens Seamlessly Connects the Classics With New Music 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Monder fashioned a prelude to the first set: a slow cycle of arpeggios, each note rippling soft and reflective. Music Review | Kneebody: Tinges of Electro-Pop and Some Ives, Too 2010-02-19T06:17:00Z “Divine” is a two-parter of longing and leering: trance arpeggios and a female voice are suddenly exchanged for distorted guitar as he cackles, “Can I lick your ice cream?” Playlist: Falling in Love, Longing and Leering 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Now their affair is replayed, with molto brio and some vivid emotional and erotic arpeggios, in Behind the Candelabra. Soderbergh’s Behind the Candelabra: Michael Douglas IS Liberace 2013-05-21T18:32:58Z Throughout January, four musicians playing two violins, a viola and a cello will work through hundreds of scales and arpeggios, using different techniques with their bows, or plucking the strings. To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z His gamelan-inspired arpeggios undulate gently in and out of sun and shadow. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z On a track like “The Root,” which drapes D’Angelo’s multitracked moan and Hunter’s guitar arpeggios over a snaking backbeat, that feeling is recursive, throwing you off balance roughly every two bars. How the Soulquarians Birthed D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ and Transformed Jazz 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Here, Massive Attack access the kind of emotional register that can’t be qualified as positive or negative, only intense, more euphoria and sadness to draw upon with each turn of the arpeggio. Reissue of Massive Attack’s Mezzanine Highlights Band’s Influence 2013-11-15T16:52:52Z During choral scenes, the music breaks into passages with repetitive percussion riffs and rippling harp arpeggios. Ian Bostridge Stars in Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The mood is melancholic, redoubled by long, drawn-out notes from the strings and minor key piano arpeggios; passages of happiness feel fragile, fleeting, untrustworthy. 'The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart' review: In this moving drama, mysteries abound 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z She identifies the first set as notes played by the left hand — in Glass’s trademark style, those would probably be arpeggios — and the second as the ones played by the right. Linling Lu’s paintings are like music to your eyes 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z When he first joined the Chorus, it was common to see choral members practicing their arpeggios while gripping their IV poles. Minister Steve Pieters endured the AIDS crisis. He's a beacon of faith battling new virus 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z She came up with a swirling arpeggio effect, which Britell turned into a motif for the “memory of trauma.” Film scores cover a spectrum of sounds and musical colors. Here are a few of note. 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z In the loft, a cellist was filming a music video, her brooding arpeggios mixing with the whiz and whirs of machinery. ‘Wood Is Life’: A Hong Kong Sawmill’s Last Days 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z “Actually, using the fingers came from before, because there were many things that I couldn’t do with the pick, like fast arpeggios. But it took hold when I started to learn classical guitar,” he elaborated. Peru's José Luis Carballo didn't always get respect, even after he created a new way to play cumbia 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z So does the filmmaking, whose every strategy — the long takes and gray-to-murky tones of Wyatt Garfield’s cinematography, the stabbing arpeggios of Jim Williams’ score — provides a formal complement to Hall’s every tic and gesture. Review: Rebecca Hall's thrilling performance breathes life into the creepy 'Resurrection' 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Co-orchestrator Todd Sickafoose responded to that flourish with one of his own, embellishing Mitchell’s score with a propulsive violin arpeggio in tune with the scene’s growing grandeur. As ‘Hadestown’ comes to the Kennedy Center, the show’s creators explain the magic behind one great song 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The actress LaChanze belts a bridge on the roof of the Steinway & Sons factory in Queens, where the pianist Chloe Flower delivers a soaring arpeggio as the sun sets over the city. As City Reopens, Performers Try to Uplift New York’s State of Mind 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z The violin plays jolting waves of arpeggios, wild and exhilarating. The Composer at the Frontier of Movie Music 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z More often, he played exactly like someone who’d been in a prog rock band, decorating songs with complex arpeggios, which absolutely wasn’t. Dave Greenfield: putting beauty at the rotten heart of the Stranglers 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s just two chords, with arpeggios over them. The Stranglers: how we made European Female 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Thanks to its drum machine patter, reverberating guitar riffs, synthesizer arpeggios and her beguiling vocals, the album plays like the soundtrack to a forgotten ’80s movie. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Instead, Weird Fishes/Arpeggi evokes an all-too-perfect harmony: cascading arpeggios enchant while fragmentary lyrics caution against the lure of false prophets. Radiohead’s 40 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Howard responded with a bittersweet violin theme that soars over a babbling brook of piano arpeggios. Seeing Terrence Malick films through his use of music. His composers share what they know 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Propulsive rhythmic themes swept along by avalanches of rapid scales and arpeggios. How the L.A. Phil turned Beethoven’s piano concerto marathon into a relay 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Down her eyepiece, she delighted in the sight of DNA-repair proteins waltzing around a yeast cell — in near-perfect harmony with the swirling piano arpeggios of the first movement’s cadenza. The sounds of science: biochemistry and the cosmos inspire new music 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z One of her biggest tracks is Fantas, featuring shifting arpeggios that never quite resolve alongside a stately melody. 50 great tracks for April by Holly Herndon, Amon Amarth, Shura and others 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The record concludes with “Lake Martinez,” as a piano arpeggio, space sounds and musings on “the loneliness of the people all around you” put the song on its own island. Review: Scottish band Idlewild return with refreshing album 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z There is unrelenting power in those pulsing, relentless synthesiser arpeggios. Giorgio Moroder – his 20 greatest songs, ranked 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The arpeggios at the very beginning of this concerto are original. How the L.A. Phil turned Beethoven’s piano concerto marathon into a relay 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Few symphony orchestras venture far into a season without summoning a soloist to execute the majestic opening arpeggios of Beethoven’s “Emperor,” the throat-clearing double-stops of the Dvořák Cello Concerto, or some other familiar bold gesture. The Concerto Challenge 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z There’s also smart play, a mode that lets you lock the keyboard to play only within a certain scale, or play chords and arpeggios with a single key. Native Instruments’ new keyboard controller is affordable and backpack-ready 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Glass has his devices, and you’ve probably heard the swirling arpeggios, the moody harmonic progressions and the propulsive rhythmic patterns a million times. Review: Philip Glass takes David Bowie and the symphony to new places with a stupendous 'Lodger' 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Klausner also wrongly told jurors that copyright does not protect chromatic scales, arpeggios or short sequences of three notes, the 9th Circuit panel found. Led Zeppelin faces retrial in 'Stairway to Heaven' copyright lawsuit 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Klausner also wrongly told jurors that copyright did not protect chromatic scales, arpeggios or short sequences of three notes, the ninth Circuit panel found. Stairway to court: US judges order new Led Zeppelin plagiarism trial 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The court said the judge also erred by telling the jury that common musical elements, such as descending chromatic scales, arpeggios or short sequences of three notes, were not protected by copyright. Federal appeals court orders new trial over claim that Led Zeppelin stole 'Stairway to Heaven' - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Adds Lattimore by way of introducing “Glamorous Mom,” “Here's the original, dreaming of the player piano playing all of the arpeggios, transcending the human hand just like the loops do.” California Sounds: A Lee Hazlewood-produced surf album by the Woodchucks is unearthed, and Mary Lattimore shares a song made for player piano 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The piece, he writes, is a "wash of sound" featuring "impressionistic string arpeggios, along with other rapid figures, moody thick chords and glissandi." Essential Arts & Culture: Getty Villa's redo, speaker dresses and Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer — damn! 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Now the frenzied chords and blizzard of arpeggios in Chopin’s Prolinase are a piece of cake to play. Wristband Lets the Brain Control a Computer with a Thought and a Twitch 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z As the latter expertly picked out Radiohead’s moody arpeggios, Chappelle delivered the song’s bitter words about self-disgust while simultaneously miming his enjoyment of the fleshly display surrounding him. Here's what happened at Dave Chappelle and John Mayer's secretive no-phones concert 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z There’s a hint of Latin music in the way Nick Zinner’s guitar hops around in syncopated arpeggios, while Brian Chase’s drums sketch a laconic backbeat. null 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z “The timing is everything,” Paul Reosti said Sunday as he tugged his bow tie into shape and ran through arpeggios in the ladies’ locker room where anthem singers prepare. Belting one out for the home team 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z “I don’t think that young girls looked at Taylor and said, ‘I’m really impressed by the way she plays G major arpeggios.’ The slow, secret death of the electric guitar. And why you should care. 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Graham is a melodic bass player and Bruce went for arpeggios. Wire on Wire – the five songs that define their career 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z It uses the quiet-loud-quiet dynamic to great effect, guitar arpeggios on the verse leading into that monstrously heavy riff on the chorus, coupled with powerful, if enigmatic, lyrics on the theme of depression and alienation. Judas Priest – 10 of the best 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z On tenor saxophone, Jason Rigby dials up his solo even higher than on the record, fashioning arpeggios that bristle and heave, skimming energy from the chunky provocations of Fabian Almazan’s piano. null 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Outside, the orchestra tunes its instruments, performs chords in bright arpeggios. Hungry ghosts : Nature : Nature Research 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Cohen faxed over all of those draft verses, and Cale set to work on a new version, trading the gospel choirs and heavy drums for a simple, haunting, piano arpeggio. Six of the best Leonard Cohen covers - BBC News 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z He played arpeggios, his long fingers hopping around the fretboard, and sang in a clear falsetto: “Da da da da.” What’s ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ Without Garrison Keillor? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z An arpeggio, or broken chord, is what happens when you play the three or more notes in a chord separately, one after the other. This web instrument will compose your next low-budget sci-fi movie score 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Sopranos filled the restaurant with arpeggios as customers nibbled dumplings, each singer sidestepping busboys with steaming platters. Chinese Restaurant in Koreatown Serves ‘Pagliacci’ Arias With Duck Sauce 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Experts for the trust said there were significant other likenesses including the use of arpeggios, similar note combinations, pitch and note durations, which Malofiy said was “more than coincidence”. Jury deliberating in Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven plagiarism trial 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z At the end, in curt, biting phrases, he delivered the line “By far the best life is the one that cannot be lived” over motoric arpeggios in the strings. Alan Gilbert’s Triumphant Biennial 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Most crucially, the arpeggio in Taurus does not resolve; the one in Stairway does, changing the whole flavor of this section of the song and creating its own melodic hook. Led Zeppelin's plagiarism lawsuit: a sign of the times in the music industry 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z He began practicing his arpeggios at age 5. New York Today: Bach in the Subways 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z But by the time the actual chorus arrives, Bieber lets the production take over: All you hear is a cooing arpeggio that feels like a gentle breeze on your brain. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z “No one likes to be faced with nothing but scales and arpeggios,” he says. Lang Lang: 'It's about the joy that music can give' 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z But asking an All Black about his thought processes when executing a skill is like asking a pianist how he is able to play an arpeggio in the middle of a Rachmaninoff concerto. Six Nations 2016: Why teams lag behind southern hemisphere sides 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z In Led Zeppelin’s case, both the Page and Wolfe songs spin on an A minor arpeggio. Led Zeppelin's plagiarism lawsuit: a sign of the times in the music industry 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z In the next room, a tenor saxophonist is soaring through scales and arpeggios in pursuit of perfection. King of jazz: The Nigerian saxophonist inspiring generations - BBC News 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z It often reflects Altea's joy and happiness in moments of arpeggios and runs. Tori Amos webchat – as it happened 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z For instance, a pianist alternates practice between scales, chords, and arpeggios, while a tennis player alternates practice between forehands, backhands, and volleys. The Interleaving Effect: Mixing It Up Boosts Learning 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Over these shifting arpeggios came the sound of a stout man with a microphone, counting down the final seconds before the gun. Fast times: what will it take to run the marathon in under two hours? 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z The sense of continual ascent is what stayed with me after I saw the premiere in New York last summer: arpeggios rising, and rising, and rising. Acclaimed outdoor music piece to be performed at three D.C. venues 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Her knowledge encompasses both terminology and technique: she can demonstrate the way to produce vibrato, and when she improvises she includes arpeggios and chromatic runs. An Artist with Amnesia 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z It often reflects Altea's joy and happiness in moments of arpeggios and runs. Tori Amos webchat – as it happened 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z On a recent rainy morning, Lee worked individually with the guys, helping one tune his instrument, teaching another about arpeggios. Project teaches stressed veterans to play music 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z He punctuated his rapid arpeggios with drumlike thumps on the body of his guitar. Manitas de Plata, dazzling flamenco guitarist in the gypsy tradition, dies at 93 These guys are nothing like the Eastern deciduous trees, with their even arpeggios of branches. This Week in Fiction: Karen Russell 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z A lawsuit was just commenced by the band Spirit against Led Zeppelin claiming the iconic guitar arpeggio opening of “Stairway to Heaven” infringes Spirit’s 1968 instrumental track “Taurus.” Spirit v. Led Zeppelin: Analysis Of The "Stairway To Heaven" Infringement Lawsuit 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z I like the loopy arpeggios and ratchet nature of ‘No Motive’ featuring a money-punny Lil Wayne and the uplifting live sounding posse cut ‘Never Surrender.’ Album Review - "Suffering From Success" By DJ Khaled 2013-10-30T17:41:00Z The theme of Nature's Hymn returns pizzicato in the basses, and is answered by harp arpeggios and chords in the brass. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Don't Stiffen the Hands in Playing Scales Should the hands be kept perfectly still in playing scales and arpeggios? Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Trills and arpeggios ran from under her fingers like clear water. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z The two that looked forward were swept by spray that beat on them like a shot, and overhead funnel-guy and wire rigging screamed in wild arpeggios under the impact of the muggy gale. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z Her little claw swept the chords with courage and precision, and struck out the notes of the arpeggio clear, and distinct, and bright, like twinkling stars; but the main charm was her voice. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z He gave me the scales to practice in thirds, and arpeggios in the diminished sevenths, for raising the fingers from the keyboard—recommending these as the best possible daily drills for the fingers. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Or, to lessen fatigue, is an occasional rise and fall of the wrist permissible in a long passage of scale or arpeggio? Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z By the way, Nino,"—he ran up a quick scale of fourths and let them fall in a minor arpeggio like tumbling water—"they say La Villari tried to commit suicide last month. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z You can't imagine anything more divine than those beautiful long notes of his and the soft arpeggio accompaniments of the violins. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z The performer, being able to use both hands, can play a melody with full harmonies, scale and arpeggio passages in single and double notes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Muted strings imitate the rush of the sea; horns and woodwind hint at the battling of elements in chaos, while the violins and harp swerve peacefully aloft in arpeggios. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Protracted passages of scales or arpeggios easily induce a stiffening of the wrist. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z “My dear friend!” he cried, his arms outflung, his fingers rattling rapid arpeggios upon invisible pianos. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z The accompaniment is a simple violin arpeggio, swaying back and forth upon the melody like a butterfly on a flower. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z It is not like the violin, on which one can get thirds, and sixths, and sevenths, by using the arpeggio: it is a single, thin tone and can easily become monotonous if not played skilfully. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z In comparison with the contracted five-finger positions of the classical technic, its broken chords and arpeggios, Liszt's technic had the advantage of a fuller, freer flow, of greater fulness of tone and increased brilliancy. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Technique is a generic term, comprising scales, arpeggios, chords, double notes, octaves, legato, and the various staccato touches as well as the dynamic shadings. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Nothing loath, Himmel seated himself at the pianoforte and began a succession of smooth running passages and arpeggios, skilfully linked together. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z As she begs Heaven to strengthen her courage, the soft arpeggios of the instruments seem to rise like incense and carry her sweet prayer with them. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Glass makes heavy use of arpeggios and other musical structures which play over and over in the orchestra — with gradually emerging variations — while soloists or chorus repeat their vocal lines. Spectacular Met production makes Glass? ?Satyagraha? an opera worth seeing 2011-11-06T17:44:50Z His scales and arpeggios have nothing in common with the stiff monotony of the Czerny school of playing; they express feeling, they give emotional variety, they embellish a melody with ineffable grace. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Deppe had thought out the best way of doing everything on the piano—the scale, the chord, the trill, octaves, broken octaves, broken thirds, broken sixths, arpeggios, chromatics, accent, rhythm—all! Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z The most essential figures which Beethoven employs are built upon the scale and the arpeggio. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z They would take the form of sustained and swelled notes, scales, passages of combined intervals, arpeggios, chromatics, and shakes. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z "How many scales and arpeggios have you played?" she enquired gravely. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z His octaves rage in chromatic and diatonic scales, in broken chords and arpeggios, up and down, hither and thither, like zigzag flashes of lightning. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z He was rolling up the piano in arpeggios in a very grand manner indeed, when he struck a semi-tone short of the high note upon which he had intended to end. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z That evening she sat at the piano in the drawing-room, her fingers wandering in long dreamy arpeggios, when her maid brought her a letter. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z I passed the time in classical studies, alternating with diligent work on scales and arpeggios, sixths and thirds, as if I were going to be a fiery pianist. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z I did like it all the time, even when I slacked, except the scales and arpeggios. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z The arpeggio principle had its attractions for the gifted Pole, who used it in the most novel combinations and dared the impossible in extended harmonies. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z I combine fast passages with arpeggios, while making appropriate use of the bass strings. Manuel Galb?n, Guitarist With Cuban Bands, Dies at 80 2011-07-09T02:57:24Z Followed the tripping dance of arpeggios, which deftly hinted of a melody to come. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z In composing the music, I had in my mind a distinct picture of a puppet, suddenly endowed with life, exasperating the patience of the orchestra with diabolical cascades of arpeggios. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The technical capabilities of the flute are practically unlimited to a good player who can obtain sustained notes diminuendo and crescendo, diatonic and chromatic scales and arpeggios both legato and staccato, leaps, turns, shakes, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Schubert's Mullerlieder seemed to have exhausted the possible ways of depicting in music the movements of the waters—but listen to the rippling arpeggios in Liszt's Fisher Boy, embodying the acquisitions of modern pianistic technic. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Listening for the bird's note, he heard the delicate murmur of the leaves, light arpeggios accompanying the singing voice of the little brook, now suddenly quite loud in his ears. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z From the living-room, a moment later, came a ripping charm of arpeggios that in their sequence told softly of the melody to come. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z I received considerably over one hundred lessons from Dreyschock, and with slow and rapid scale and arpeggio practice his instruction had special reference to limber and flexible wrists, his distinguishing feature being his wonderful octave-playing. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z The greater part of its passage work is in the form of harmonic arpeggios whose richness and originality match the chords they represent. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z The pianoforte gives in arpeggios the first transformation of this musical thought and in massive chords the second transformation. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The mighty arpeggios of the accompaniment died away. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z But after a little, indignation somewhat relieved by such audible interpretation, his fingers flew into rippling arpeggios, out of which came, at last, a lilting melody, joyous, yet tender. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z Scale and arpeggio passages were absolutely clean and without a flaw. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z Not when you've tuned your ears to the cool synthesizer arpeggios bubbling beneath the insipid chit-chat. With Daft Punk soundtrack, 'Tron: Legacy' is a film to be heard 2010-12-24T22:12:00Z Let’s see if fewer arpeggios produce a cleaner melody. You're the Boss: Sunday at the Bar With Chef Joe 2010-10-28T11:00:00Z The caps' ringtone melody is an arpeggio that "starts off being subtle and nice, but becomes more insistent," said Rose, who teaches at MIT's Media Lab. Forget your medicine? This device won't let you 2010-03-29T04:01:00Z A pure, echoing arpeggio rang from the superb crystal. The Undying Past His daily exercises included scale and arpeggio passages played at various rates of speed and with different degrees of dynamic force. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z The same thought applied to an arpeggio would be: These I take within comfortable limits of my voice, always remembering that the least strain is a backward step. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The laugh of the glad, the taut laugh of the mad; the lover's sigh, and the convict's sigh—and, beneath, like arpeggio scales under a melody, the swiftly running gabble-gabble of life. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole Across the arpeggios of the misted violins, his eyes burned a path. Carnival Mason hadn’t the sense to send him away, and I didn’t know he was there until the awful arpeggios began. A Question of Marriage As distinguished from any pianist-composer up to his time, his specialty was the surrounding of a melody with arabesques and ornamental passages of scales and arpeggios played with rapidity, clearness, and brilliancy. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z There can never be too much practice of a scale or arpeggio exercise. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Light flared and died in odd rhythms, and the almost visible winds played icy arpeggios upon strings of spun glass, like Aeolian harps. Shock Treatment She had diligently practised scales, exercises and arpeggios, but had steadfastly refused to sing any songs to them. The Head Girl at the Gables "Pour un regard de vous!" sang the voice, and trembled into a passionate intricacy of arpeggios. Command If due attention be given to the intonation of the arpeggio, the scale should not be, as it too often is, all out of tune. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. This does not mean that scales and arpeggios are to be avoided. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists He gloats a while over the Second's gloomy outlook, and yawns in that irritating arpeggio, the foretaste of a good sound sleep. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war The professor made her try various scales, arpeggios, studies, and a song. The Head Girl at the Gables And when, with his fullest power, he would go storming over the strings, in brilliant, sparkling scales and arpeggios, Antonia would clap her hands and cry, delighted, 'Ah! The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The 'cellos, sighing with lassitude and pity, lamented in gentle accord; the violins cut through the harmony with sharp cries of rebellion and gay arpeggios. Their Son; The Necklace My exercises are for the most part simple scales, arpeggios or trills. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The wide arpeggios in the left hand, maintained in a continuous stream of tone by the strict legato and fine and constant use of the damper-pedal, formed an harmonious substructure for a wonderfully poetic cantabile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Effects of double stopping, staccato, rapid arpeggios—everything is executed with the same precision, the same purity, the same grace. Camilla: A Tale of a Violin Being the Artist Life of Camilla Urso So the Earl's gentle exit ends in a musical and penetrating arpeggio of a door-hinge, equal to the betrayal of Masonic secrecy if delivered at the right moment. When Ghost Meets Ghost But at such times after he had frittered away a few minutes, Mrs. Nesbit would call down to him, “You, Kenyon,” and he would sigh and take up his scales and runs and arpeggios. In the Heart of a Fool Her vocal exercises were little more than scales sung very slowly, single, sustained tones repeated time and again until her critical ear was entirely satisfied, and then arpeggios. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists It rose slowly and descended, it ran rippling arpeggios and lingered in flute-like trills; but it was colorless, impersonal, void of feeling. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp From the wide spacing of the lower tones of the series Chopin derived the extended grouping of his arpeggios, e.g., Music: An Art and a Language Now he drew a protesting arpeggio from the black keys and shook his head. The Dominant Strain The harp was innocent enough with its fantastic spray of arpeggios; it was used only as gilding to warm the bitter, wiry tone of the fiddles. Melomaniacs Therefore, I worked daily for four years, drilling myself with the greatest care in scales, arpeggios and sustained tones. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists By which I do not mean the brilliant technical feats of arpeggio, staccato, tremolo, etc., but the pure legato bowing of cantabile passages. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. In the middle contrasting portion it seems as if Schumann had taken a leaf out of Chopin's book—a beautiful, lyric melody floating on an undercurrent of sonorous, arpeggio chords. Music: An Art and a Language Because you never pay any attention to the arpeggio, dear. Somehow Good Add to this arpeggios and Bach, and you have the basis upon which my technical work stands. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression My daily work simply consists of scales, arpeggios and the simplest kind of exercises, the simpler the better. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists She ran her white fingers over the notes of the piano, producing a rippling arpeggio that was like running water. Colorado Jim The Poem begins with soft, sustained calls on the horns, creating a mood of expectancy, interspersed with modulatory arpeggios on the harp serving to complete the legendary picture. Music: An Art and a Language He shook out a low whistle—an arpeggio down. Somehow Good Any young pianist who aspires to have his hands in condition to respond to the subtle suggestions of his brain may acquire a marvelous foundation by the use of scales, Bach and arpeggios. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression He played it entirely from memory, very slowly, very softly at first, until the measured notes, swelling into volume, filled the room in a loud arpeggio. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution The slow arpeggios of it, liquid, sibilant, Thrill and thrill in the dark. American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Thus we find the same melodic warmth as in Schubert, the rhythmic vitality and massive harmony so prominent in Schumann and the extended arpeggios and chords, the color and richness, peculiar to Chopin. Music: An Art and a Language A lesser artist might have endeavoured to amplify the chords, but Wilhelmine played her accompaniment in thin arpeggios, making the clavichord sound like a stringed instrument, and achieving a charming effect. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg In playing arpeggios, however, the difficulties which prove obstacles to the players may be entirely reversed. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression Then the bravura run returns, and then the harmonic arpeggio motive as before, but always carried out in different keys and chords. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations This stopped as if by magic; for, suddenly, from out there by the railing, a few long thrilling shakes were heard, deliciously sweet and pure, followed by the arpeggio. The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne The movement ends with brilliant arpeggios in the pianoforte against octaves and double stops in the violin. Music: An Art and a Language This subsides in ravishingly liquid arpeggios,—"melodious tears"?—which obtain the kindred effect of Chopin's tinkling "Berceuse" in a slightly different way. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Particular attention is given to the mechanical side of technic, the exercises, scales and arpeggios. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression The first study he has placed with the arpeggio figure in both hands simultaneously, and a heavy melody of chords is also added. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Buoyant were the violins; sportive the flutes; all alive the gitterns; blithesome the tripping arpeggios that crisply fell from the strings of the joyous harps. Under the Rose He laughed in arpeggios, peal on peal, crescendo and diminuendo, until, finally, he flung himself down on the short turf and in his merriment rolled over and over. Flamsted quarries Opus 19 consists of "Four Sketches," of which the "�tude Melodieuse" is as good as is necessary in that overworked style, wherein a thin melody is set about with a thinner ripple of arpeggios. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions During the first five years the backbone of the daily work in all Russian schools is scales and arpeggios. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression These Bach wrote merely as chords to be played arpeggio, and it was for a long time a question as to what manner of filling up the time would be nearest his intention. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Chords, arpeggios, diminished sevenths, modulation, expression, all were mixed up in formless melody. The Music Master Novelized from the Play Yes! she and he were in the drawing-room—she, in front of the piano; he, half reclining on the sofa, listening vaguely to the pearly arpeggios which escaped from the fingers of the charmer. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery It ends with Rubinstein's sign and seal, an arpeggio in sixths, which is as trite a musical finis as fiction's 319 "They lived happily ever afterward, surrounded by a large circle of admiring friends." Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions As the time goes on the scales and arpeggios become more difficult, more varied, more rapid, but they are never omitted from the daily work. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression The first study, in C major, has for its object to accustom the hand to wide extensions, the arpeggio figure nearly always covering a tenth and sometimes an eleventh. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Not merely to be master of this or that instrument; certainly not to teach reluctant young people their scales and arpeggios. Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Then follows a series of arpeggios for the harps, made of the motive of warning, and out of them there gradually steals the tonic triad of D minor, sung by three oboes. A Book of Burlesques His compositions abound with novel combinations; double stops, harmonics, and arpeggios are displayed with wonderful results. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators Of course, there must be other technical material in addition to scales, but the highest technic, broadly speaking, may be traced back to scales and arpeggios. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression I have here also forgotten to mention the series of arpeggios upon chromatic chords, beginning in measure 27. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The earliest exercises used for "placing the voice" are in every respect technical studies,—single tones and syllables, scale passages, arpeggios, etc. The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern The Kapellmeister went on improvising arpeggios on the piano as if he had not heard. The Black Cross He had heard a Harper at Bath—the performer was soon Harpless—and now Fischer, Abel, and Giardini were all forgotten—there was nothing like chords and arpeggios! The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators The practice of scales and arpeggios need never be mechanical or uninteresting. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression The accompaniment of this charming melody is thoroughly Chopinesque, consisting of arpeggio figures generally covering the compass of a tenth. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations In Chopin's music there is much loose texture; there are wide-meshed chords, daring leaps and abrupt arpeggios. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Velasco began to trill softly on the G string, and then swept over the arch with an arpeggio pianissimo. The Black Cross This one plays a melody I do not know, a melody plaintive and ingratiating, of clarinet arpeggios all compact. Europe After 8:15 They include scales, arpeggios, and other forms of exercises in special technical designs. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression How disenchanting sound those climbing, arbutus-like arpeggios and subtle half-tints of Chopin when played on that brutal, jangling instrument of wood, wire and iron, the pianoforte! Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Sir Julius Benedict remarks that 'at this period mechanical dexterity, musical claptraps, skips from one part of the piano to another, endless shakes and arpeggios, were the order of the day.' Story-Lives of Great Musicians He toyed with the difficulties; his scales, his arpeggios were as a flash, a ripple of notes tumbling over one another, each one a pearl. The Black Cross M. Paul's excited accent could be distinguished playing arpeggios all over Ernestine's grumbling bass. One Woman's Life There comes a time to every advanced pianist when such exercises as the scales, arpeggios, the studies of Czerny and Cramer are unnecessary. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression Chords of not more than four tones for each hand may be played simultaneously on the harp, but arpeggio and scale passages are the rule, and are more successful than simultaneous chords. Music Notation and Terminology In another piece, inspired by the sight of carnations, they found that Mendelssohn intended certain arpeggio passages "as a reminder of the sweet scent of the flower rising up." Chopin and Other Musical Essays We want a little more delicacy in these arpeggios, and then it will do. A Popular Schoolgirl The tender corn rustles its soft little chimes, and all across it the wind sends arpeggio chords of delicate music, like a harp played on silver strings. My War Experiences in Two Continents He was exceedingly particular about arpeggio work, and insisted upon the repetition of every note and passage until all harshness and roughness of tone were eliminated. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Then there is a hushed arpeggio, struck from strings which are old and worn, but sweet and tender still. The Spinster Book The brevity of the sound made sustained melodies ineffective, and encouraged the use of a great variety of embellishments and the spreading out of harmonies in the form of arpeggios. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art In the lesson-scene she gave Rode's variations, and her execution of the second variation in arpeggios was pronounced infinitely superior to Catalani's. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag His arpeggios at times rolled like the waves of the sea, and at others resembled folds of transparent lace floating airily with the movements of the wearer. Great Violinists And Pianists He was practically a pioneer in the effective use of chords, arpeggio passages, octaves and tenths, double and triple harmonics and succession of harmonics in thirds and in sixths. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music To view the Lilypond source file, click here. which, of course, are played in arpeggio. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development The speech was in the form of a duet, rendered by the Gunki with deep feeling, and accompanied by the Plynck and her Echo with liquid-sounding arpeggios on their lyres, that were most appropriate. The Garden of the Plynck This noise was not repeated, and by a treble rap I mean the sound was like an arpeggio chord. The Alleged Haunting of B—— House His theme, which lies in the middle part, is brought out clearly in relief with an accompaniment of complicated arpeggios which reminds me of a harp. Great Violinists And Pianists He possessed a well-trained, fascinating mechanism, with scales, chords, arpeggios and octaves that were marvels of neatness and accuracy, and a tone that was mellow and liquid, though lacking in warmth. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music His six published sonatas are of great musical interest; in his wide sweeping arpeggios and other florid passages he shows an advance on E. Bach. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development Many points in his prolonged passages which are simply arpeggios of the chord of the diminished seventh must have seemed novel in the eighteen-forties, though we hardly notice them now. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Almost as in a dream Diana watched Kirolski lift his violin from its cushiony bed and run his fingers lightly over the strings in a swift arpeggio. The Splendid Folly Florence sat at the piano, and, in response to Quincy's request that she would give him some music, played over some chromatic scales and arpeggios. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life The fact that the pattern of a musical phrase can suggest kinds of motion may seem strange; but could we, for example, imagine a spinning song with broken arpeggios? Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The second movement of the "Appassionata" breaks off with an arpeggio chord of diminished seventh, and the Finale starts on the same chord. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development Naturally the arpeggios are not wholly violet, for each loop has a different hue, but on the whole they approach more nearly to that colour than to any other. Thought-Forms Begin by making the class sing them in arpeggio, and in a definite rhythm, so as to get precision. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students Some one's fingers ran over the keys of the piano in light arpeggios…. A Reckless Character And Other Stories Paderewski advises studying scales and arpeggios with accents, for instance, accenting every third note, thus enabling each finger in turn to make the accent impulse: this will secure evenness of touch. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers On the violin these cannot be played solidly, as on the piano; but must be studied as arpeggios, in the most exhaustive way, harmonically and technically. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers There are various forms of arpeggios to be used. Vocal Mastery Talks with Master Singers and Teachers This step is invaluable in its later results—a child will often be heard to sing different chords in arpeggio, when in doubt as to the chords to use in harmonizing a melody. Music As A Language Lectures to Music Students The basses move with leaden-footed reluctance; the melodies consist largely of ineffective arpeggios on long-drawn chords; the embroidery seems greatly in excess of modest needs. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians Of course scales must be carefully studied, with various accents, rhythms and tonal dynamics; arpeggios also. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers He cannot play spiccato or any of the 'bouncing' bowings, including various forms of arpeggios, with a poor stick. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers Mary Jannan, at the piano, wove a delicate succession of arpeggios. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Long notes, scales, arpeggios, are all practicable on this serviceable instrument, and in full harmony with clarinets, or oboes and horns, it forms part of a rich and beautiful combination. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 All this had been the merest muted arpeggio accompaniment to the steady practical advance of her housekeeper's mind. The Brimming Cup First some finger movements, perhaps with fingers in an extended chord position; then some scales and arpeggios; then a Chopin étude, and so on. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Here, for instance, I have scales, trills, arpeggios—all in the same study, and the study is conceived as a musical composition instead of a technical formula. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers No one in the outer office realized how faultless, how rhythmic were the arpeggios and cadences that issued from those expertly puckered lips. Half Portions The scales and arpeggios following one another without interruption, came to his ears in a pleasant monotone. Vandover and the Brute As if the readjusting cataclysms had blocked their old channels of these, and opened new ones… A new arpeggio chord, but rather a faint and broken one, sounds in the five-twenties, or begins then. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Much of the necessary technic may be learned from the pieces themselves, though scales and arpeggios must form part of the daily routine. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Only a very common character would select pieces written entirely for a vain show—of rapid runs, glittering arpeggios, and loud, unmeaning chords. Music Talks with Children Thoroughfares that give forth a glad hum; wheels singing, too; whips that crack in sprightly arpeggios. Half A Chance It opens in quite a bewitching dance manner and then goes on tinkling away on top notes, with chromatic runs, half floating arpeggios and all the rest of the stock-in-trade of pretty salon music. Edward MacDowell Scales and arpeggios, as commonly rendered, had no longer interest or charm for him. Edward MacDowell Then came the principles of the scale, arpeggios, chords and octaves. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers There are no—or few—contrapuntal formulas, hardly any mere chord progressions broken into arpeggios and figurated designs. Haydn The only possible explanation of the matter is that Vivier executed a very rapid arpeggio, so that the four notes which apparently were heard together were, in fact, heard one after the other. The Bed-Book of Happiness We may not even be sure of what is meant by counterpoint or the difference between a fugue and an arpeggio. The "Goldfish" We will take for our first study a simple arpeggio, using the syllables Ya ha, thus: We use Ya on the first tone, because when sung freely it helps to place the tone well forward. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art Of these practise hours, at least one hour is given to technic, scales, arpeggios, octaves, chords—and Bach! Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers A Tune a day—a beginning scale book; may be used as supplement to any violin method; includes studies in thirds, arpeggios and an introduction to double stops all in the first position. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1975 July - December The effect, however, was not that of an arpeggio, but of a chord of four different notes played simultaneously on four different instruments. The Bed-Book of Happiness Can't you see her now in her lonely room, reeling off from under her fleet fingers the dazzling arpeggios, while the tears gather in her eyes and fall upon her hands? The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 In singing the arpeggio the tones of the voice must be strictly staccato; but the movement of the hands and body must be very smooth, even, and continuous—no short, jerky movements. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art Those endless scales, arpeggios and passages, which must be flawless, in which you dare not blur or miss a single note! Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers And then, out of a mounting foam of arpeggios, there bloomed for her a new idea, solid enough, broad enough, high enough, for a refuge against all these wolfish fangs. The Bent Twig Paula dug half a dozen vicious arpeggios out of it and condemned it out of hand. Mary Wollaston He was sitting at the piano and making arpeggios with his long, white, curved fingers. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories We have so far studied ascending and descending movements or arpeggios. The Renaissance of the Vocal Art If one is far advanced a few arpeggios and scales, or a brilliant étude will put the hand in condition. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers From a Niagara of lace, insteps quivered an arpeggio. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It It was not a piano tuner's arpeggio but a curiously teasing mixed dissonance she couldn't begin to identify. Mary Wollaston In the parlor I heard a slow arpeggio, and his voice, deadened, and a denial from her. The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Unseen fingers ran light arpeggios up and down the keys of the piano … then the voice began again. Dream Tales and Prose Poems When these foundational points have been acquired, the trill, scales, arpeggios, chords, octaves and double notes follow in due course. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers These unseen effusions are the conversation of thought with itself the arpeggios involuntary but not unconscious, of that aeolian harp we bear within us. Amiel's Journal The accompaniment consisted of simple chords and arpeggios, a very plain and sufficient background. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis Cadenzas, glissandos, arpeggios, chromatics, syncopations, blue melodies—these are the embroidery of sound. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago And from the rhythm ascends music, like a vine climbing a trellis—arpeggios from silver keys, sorrowful violins, velvety and smooth-sounding flutes…. Jean-Christophe, Volume I I insist on a thorough knowledge of scales and arpeggios, and a serious study of Bach. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers The exercise should be practised with such musical variations as the student can learn to execute—the scale, arpeggios, etc., both sustained tone and light touches, broad tones and shaded tones. Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System From all around echoed the happy cries of birds; the vernal air thrilled and vibrated in great running arpeggios to the wonder-music of the winds. Tales of the Wilderness The Marquis attacked the overture by playing some vigorous arpeggios and pompous chords. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters The water dropping from the oars gave out little arpeggios, then chromatic scales. Jean-Christophe, Volume I |
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