Meanings (ES + gloss)
arpegio
The notes of a chord played individually instead of simultaneously, usually moving from lowest to highest.
He struck the opening chords of the passage; but this time Irene's voice was silent. Victor stopped in the middle of an arpeggio.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
arpegiar
To play (a chord) as an arpeggio; to play (a piece of music) with arpeggios.
1819, Abraham Rees (ed.), The Cyclopædia, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 14, entry “Fingering on Keyed Instruments,” In practising quick passages, the fingers s…
[…] I could see a man with his head buried forward towards a key-board, and his body swaying from side to side amid the storm of huge arpeggioed harmonies that came crashing overhe…
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