“arpeggio”在英语中的释义

noun

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

verb

1. (transitive) 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 should be lifted up with a spring, and not allowed to hang on the keys, till wanted again, unless in arpeggioing chords, or in passages of expression.

2. (intransitive) To produce arpeggios; to produce sounds resembling arpeggios.

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