Arpeggio: alternatives and connections

A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical and balanced whole, which m…

The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord.

The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation;…

An agreeable combination of tones simultaneously heard; a consonant chord; consonance; harmony.

From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so re…

A chord, not fundamental, but obtained from another by inversion; or, vice versa, a ground tone or root implied in its harmonics in an…

A game much like hockey, played in an open field; also, the, bent stick for playing the game.

A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, bu…

To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder…

Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.

An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.

The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in pl…

Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteent…

To play on, as a harp; to play (a tune) on the harp; to develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp;…

A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by mean…

A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing.

To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.