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Topic: Arpeggio question
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ChopinLoverInPA
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Arpeggio question
on: September 03, 2004, 05:52:07 PM
(note: the copy I have on paper has both clefs arpeggiated, not just the bass clef, so pls. make that assumption)
OK, is there a particular order to how this is played? I have a recording of Irina Zaritzkaya playing it and it sounds like she's playing the c# in the F clef AFTER the d# in the G clef. Is she playing it wrong? Is there some rule about this? Is it at the discretion of the pianist as to what order to play the notes in?
Thanks ahead of time for your help!
CLIPA
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in_love_with_liszt
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Re: Arpeggio question
Reply #1 on: September 03, 2004, 10:13:19 PM
It really makes a big difference in the way that it's played depending on the way that both clefs are arpeggiated in your version. (For some reason the picture won't show up, so I'm assuming that there is that squiggly line indicating an arpeggiation). If it is a
continuous
wavy line spanning both the bass and trebble clef, then the lowest note is always played first, followed by the next lowest, and so on. If the wavy lines arpeggiating the bass and trebble clefs are separate then the notes in the bass and trebble clef are arpeggiated
simultaneously
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Daevren
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Re: Arpeggio question
Reply #2 on: September 03, 2004, 10:25:34 PM
Yes.
One wavy line; one big arp.
Two wavy lines; two arps played together.
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RachOn
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Re: Arpeggio question
Reply #3 on: September 04, 2004, 01:39:43 AM
But still neither are really arpeggio's per se, because the notes you play are very near to simultaneous, aren't they? I've always played them with a slight rolling of the wrist and stiff fingers and its always been just a very slight difference in when the notes are played... I always thought a true arpeggio was say A C sharp E A all sixteenth notes played as seperate notes to define a chord.
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ChopinLoverInPA
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Re: Arpeggio question
Reply #4 on: September 04, 2004, 02:31:01 AM
Ahhh I see...I didn't know that -- it is indeed a squiggly line, seperate on each clef....thanks!
They are played very close together -- with the sustain pedal depressed - the result is that the notes blend and overlap with each other -- it's actual an amazing affect (especially when combined with the notes in the preceding measure)...
Anyway, thanks all for clearing this up for me...
CLIPA
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