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The American History and Encyclopedia of Music, 1908
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1armonizzamento
2armonizzamento (är-mô-nîd-zä-mên-tô) It. n.
3Agreement, concord.
4armonizzante (är-mô-nîd-zän'-të) It. pres. part.
5Harmonizing: being harmonious, musical.
6armonizzare (är-mô-nîd-zä'-rë) It. v.
7To harmonize; to accord: to make concord, harmony.
8armure (är-mûr') Fr. n.
9Armor or preparation: hence the signature of a scale.
10arnout dance (är-nout')
11This dance is performed in Greece today and is a survival of one used by the ancient Greeks on going to battle. It was also danced by the Lusitanians, an ancient people, living in the western part of the Spanish peninsula. The leader starts the dance by cracking a whip or shaking a staff, and rushing from one group to another. The others following him, hands entwined, move in cadence.
12arpa doppia (är'-pä dôp'-pi-ä) It.
13The same as arpanetta and Spitzharfe, which see.
14arpanetta (är-pä-nêt'-tä) It. n.
151. A small harp or lute.
162. A small pointed harp, having two rows of strings, one of brass wire and one of steel wire. The same as arpa doppia and Spitzharfe.
17arpégement (är-pâzh-mäñ) Fr. n.
18An arpeggio; a broken chord. A chord the tones of which are sounded successively instead of simultaneously.
19arpéger (är-pâ-zhâ) Fr. v.
20To arpeggiare: to play in broken chords, that is, to play the notes in the chords successively instead of simultaneously.
21arpeggi (är-pêd'-jê) It. n.
22Arpeggios.
23arpeggiamento (är-pêd-jä-mên-tô) It. n.
24Harping; arpeggio.
25arpeggiando (är-pêd-jän'-dô) It. part.
26Playing in broken chords, in imitation of the harp.
27arpeggiare (är-pêd-jä'-rë) It. v.
28To harp: to play as if on a harp, in broken chords.
29arpeggiato (är-pêd-jä'-tô) It. part.
30Harped: played in broken chords.
31Abbr. arp.
32arpeggiatura (är-pêd-jä-too'-rä) It. n.
33A series of arpeggios.
34arpeggio (är-pêd'-jô) It. n.
35The playing of the notes of a chord in the style of a harp, not simultaneously, but one after another very rapidly, producing a rippling effect. In old music sometimes an oblique line was drawn through the stem of the chord to mark this method of playing, but this is incorrect, as the acciacatura is generally meant when such a sign is used. An arpeggio is usually indicated by { sometimes by )
36Formerly an ascending arpeggio was marked
38and a descending arpeggio
40Chords that are to be broken into eighth notes or sixteenth notes are marked
42Abbr. arpo.
43arpeggio accompaniment
44An accompaniment made up almost entirely of arpeggios: broken chords.
45arpeggione (är-pêd-jô'-në) It. n.
46Guitar-violoncello. A stringed instrument invented by G. Staufer of Vienna in 1823. It seems to have been about the size of the small violoncello called viol da gamba, but was shaped more like a guitar. The finger-board had frets and the six strings were tuned to E. A, d, g, b, e. This instrument was little used, although we have a sonata in A for piano and arpeggione written by Schubert about 1824.
47arpicordo (är-pî-kôr-dô) It. n.
48The same as harpsichord.
49arpinella (är-pî-nêl'-lâ) It. n.
50See arpanetta.
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