arpeggiate

American  

[ahr-pej-ee-ayt] / ɑrˈpɛdʒ iˌeɪt /

verb (used with object)

Music.

arpeggiated, arpeggiating

1. to sound the notes of (a chord) in succession.

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Etymology

Origin of arpeggiate

arpeggi(o) + -ate ¹

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Example Sentences

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arpeggiate arpeggiated arpeggiating

I had inexplicably lost the ability to arpeggiate.

From US News ● Apr. 27, 2015

Original material began to emerge — songs that were melodic and oblique in equal measure, with arpeggiated guitar hooks and Stipe’s lyrics drifting in and out of focus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2024

Taurus’s 1968 song “Spirit” includes an acoustic passage with an arpeggiated chord progression and a descending chromatic bass line that resembles the pastoral introduction to “Stairway.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

Sondheim's tight, episodic rhyming lyrics, and twisting, arpeggiated, complicated music reveals so many intricacies about the life of a woman, particularly a woman of the theatre:

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021

Plus, they have a taste for bludgeoning arpeggiated synths straight out of Robyn’s playbook.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2019

The lute idea dictates an arpeggiated accompaniment, whose harmonic beauty and courage is beyond description and beyond the grasp of the mind at the first hearing.

From 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 by Rupert Hughes

Alsop elevated its vaporous beds of arpeggiating strings and coolly undulating woodwinds into a beguiling texture, soon intruded upon by alarming outbursts from the horns.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2023

Mr. Glass’s arpeggiating, unhurried score, with a sung Sanskrit text drawn from the Bhagavad Gita, evokes Gandhi’s early activism in South Africa and his development of a philosophy of nonviolent resistance.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2020

The score is punctuated by a kind of signal: two pianos, tuned a quarter tone apart, arpeggiating upward into silence.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018

The Stranger Things soundtrack—a Tangerine Dream/Alan Howarth–devotional horrorscape of arpeggiating synths—was celebrated enough to propel its composers, Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon of Survive, into becoming stars.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2016

Very large hands are tempted by their reach to crush the life out of the study in not arpeggiating it.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker

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