Talk:Arpeggio

message: I agree this article really is poorly written and is lacking. Arpeggiation is complex and warrants more description. Symbology/notation is not even discussed as there are wavy arpeggio lines for example that can be played differently on different instruments.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:24D0:E00:2DA2:1E5:1174:A9BF (talk) 21:52, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Notation

message: actually a picture of a chord?
:I agree, it is a chord. Does anyone have any information on the sound sample (e.g. its creator/origin)? (Adam B 20:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: I made the sound sample (it reads on the description page). ›mysid (☎∆✎) 10:36, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sample

message: Yes, the example consists of a chord, but in addition has the arpeggio symbol preceding it. And below is one possible interpretation written out. 
There is some confusion regarding arpeggios because they can be written out with specific note durations, or indicated with the curly, vertical line, which is imprecise as to the duration that each note should receive. Often, the curly vertical symbol will have an arrow indicating if the arpeggio should be played upward or downward. And that points out another liimitation of the arpeggio symbol; that it can only indicate a strictly uni-directional arpeggio.
Yamex5 23:40, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion over the arpeggio example ... 

message: This article has copied some bad definitions from elsewhere on the web. It needs to clarify why an arpeggio is not the same as a broken chord. Both involve sounding the constituent notes sequentially instead of at the same time (as in a normal chord) but I think there is a further difference involved.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.9.114.210 (talk) 11:50, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition

message: A broken chord is not necessarily an arpeggio. In the context of playing the violin, breaking a chord means to separate the double stops, which is different than playing each note individually in an arpeggio. So why does broken chord redirect to Arpeggio?
--Heero Kirashami (talk) 23:32, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you explain what double stops are?   Please write your explanation in a way that makes sense to someone who is getting sort of hard of hearing, like me.   For instance, I can hear drums  (say, snare drums, bongo drums, and castanets), and have noticed that different drums have different kinds of frequencies associated with them.  Since the main article indicates they must be struck separately, and not simultaneously, when is it done in an arpeggio, and when is it not done that way?   The main article leaves me mystified as to what a broken chord is.   216.99.201.43 (talk) 03:34, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think what he means is that you would play the first and second note simultaneously and then the third and fourth note simultaneously when playing a four-voiced chord on the violin, since it's not possible to play all four strings at once on the violin. If you play it like that, you play a "broken chord", if you play every note separated from the other, you play an arpeggio. John M. Snow (talk) 16:22, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken Chord 

message: can we give some examples?
for guitar arpeggio we could use the opening of the animals version of house of the rising sun.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.196.241.194 (talk) 14:44, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  A large section in the middle of the Chaconne, BWV 1004 for solo violin by J. S. Bach consists of arpeggios John M. Snow (talk) 16:24, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples 

message: Hmm, I think I can tell what this means.  But it's incredibly unclear and might just need to be pruned. Huw Powell (talk) 22:52, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I just took it out. It does make a certain vague sense, but needs clarification and better integration into the existing text. __ Just plain Bill (talk) 21:10, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Arpeggios are known at the end of scales." 

message: - Sorry, but why is a C major arpeggio over two octaves C-E-G-C-G-E-C and not C-E-G-C-E-G-(c)? Below, the article says that playing notes of the chord out of sequence isn't an arpeggio, but that's exactly whats written in this example. I also don't think that this definition is correct, since on the guitar you have most chords with the tones "out of sequence" and you still call it arpeggios.John M. Snow (talk) 16:37, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation 

message: - The list of instruments where arpeggios are used "most often" is completely arbitrary (see comment above).
- The guitar section only focuses on electric guitars and leaves out the complete classical literature.
- A synthesizer is (most often) a keyboard instrument, yet it gets an own subitem.
John M. Snow (talk) 16:37, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instruments 

message: I am an musician (oboe) and I have been playing for about four years. This article contradicts almost everything I know about arpeggios. To me, an arpeggio is a sequence of notes in a scale played in a certain, but not sequential. However, this article's definition (which I have seen elsewhere on the internet) defines it as a broken chord, and I am confused. Does anyone know why this is?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hiku-me (talk • contribs) 23:55, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition Issues 

message: This section is very poor. Arpeggio is a natural consequence using of a harmonic language in musical accompaniment and within a musical texture. It is therefore obvious that instruments commonly undertaking such a role (accompaniment) or providing supporting harmonic texture, (notably those capable of polyphony such as keyboards and fretted instruments), should be heard executing arpeggios more often than other instruments. One or two sentences could state this observation to good effect rather than provision of a lame list. I see little good justification for the section or list. RichardJ Christie (talk) 11:09, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instrument section 

message: The link to the first sound example takes me to a secondary page instead of play. The second sound example works okay, so it's probably not my computer. The path looks different also.--2605:E000:864C:E900:30B8:4E98:40DE:3DAE (talk) 05:46, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad URL? 

message: For some reason, the song in "Explanation" is Undefined. No idea how to fix it.
-FavoritoHJS (talk) 20:16, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: What song? I see only a sound file illustrating an ascending arpeggio. What is "undefined" about it?—Jerome Kohl (talk) 20:20, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The chord in "Explanation". -FavoritoHJS (talk) 18:15, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, that's the one I see. What is "undefined" about it?—Jerome Kohl (talk) 18:55, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who set an Undefined song?