The practice of scales and arpeggios need never be mechanical or uninteresting.
Add to this arpeggios and Bach, and you have the basis upon which my technical work stands.
As the time goes on the scales and arpeggios become more difficult, more varied, more rapid, but they are never omitted from the daily work.
Arpeggios are also included in this scale practise.
Much of the necessary technic may be learned from the pieces themselves, though scales and arpeggios must form part of the daily routine.
Hand over thumb and thumb under hand; different qualities of tone; staccato or clinging touch; scales, arpeggios and various other forms are used.
He has been known to play scales andarpeggios in a single key for three quarters of an hour at a stretch.
Paderewski advises studying scales and arpeggios with accents, for instance, accenting every third note, thus enabling each finger in turn to make the accent impulse: this will secure evenness of touch.
Many more testify that scales, chords, arpeggiosand octaves constitute their daily bread.
Of course scales must be carefully studied, with various accents, rhythms and tonal dynamics; arpeggios also.
Those endless scales, arpeggios and passages, which must be flawless, in which you dare not blur or miss a single note!
Arpeggios are of great importance, because, in one form or another, they constantly occur.
These can be studied in scales, chords, arpeggiosand other technical forms.
This works out in scales and arpeggios with a variety of touches--one hand playing a passage or scale staccato while the other plays legato, and vice versa.
If one is far advanced a few arpeggios and scales, or a brilliant étude will put the hand in condition.
Sigismond Stojowski considers that scales and arpeggios must form a part of the daily routine.
Scales and arpeggios come in for their share of criticism.
As the student advances we take up chord playing with different touches, scales, arpeggios and octaves.
It can be detected in another melody assigned to the clarinets and bassoons against rising arpeggios by the solo instruments, which is prominent in the development.
The engaging melody [Illustration: play music] is sung immediately by the oboes over chords in the clarinets and bassoons and pizzicato arpeggios in the 'cellos.
The first melody comes back in the 'cello and dominates the coda, against trills and arpeggios in the piano.
Not a note of Paganini's piece is left out, and the arpeggios are ingeniously set out for interwoven fingering, causing the performance to be something to look at as well as to hear.
Every kind of bowing and fingering, the portamento, harmonic effects, arpeggios and their evolution from various chords, are all ably treated, and the work concludes with a few remarks on orchestral playing which are of especial interest.
The last is in widespread ascending and descending arpeggios throughout.
The theme is simply harmonised at first, then used as a counterpoint to the arpeggios in the first variation.
The movement must be slow, for there are arpeggiosof eight notes to the quaver beat in the guitar part.
G minor, more elaborate, theme for violoncello and violin, rapid arpeggios for guitar; III.
His arpeggios at times rolled like the waves of the sea, and at others resembled folds of transparent lace floating airily with the movements of the wearer.
His theme, which lies in the middle part, is brought out clearly in relief with an accompaniment of complicated arpeggios which reminds me of a harp.
I have here also forgotten to mention the series of arpeggios upon chromatic chords, beginning in measure 27.
The pianoforte gives in arpeggios the first transformation of this musical thought and in massive chords the second transformation.
His scales and arpeggios have nothing in common with the stiff monotony of the Czerny school of playing; they express feeling, they give emotional variety, they embellish a melody with ineffable grace.
The theme of Nature's Hymn returns pizzicato in the basses, and is answered by harp arpeggios and chords in the brass.
He gave me the scales to practice in thirds, and arpeggios in the diminished sevenths, for raising the fingers from the keyboard--recommending these as the best possible daily drills for the fingers.
Schubert's Mullerlieder seemed to have exhausted the possible ways of depicting in music the movements of the waters--but listen to the rippling arpeggios in Liszt's Fisher Boy, embodying the acquisitions of modern pianistic technic.
Arpeggios and chromatic scales, passages ascending and descending, she executed in the same manner that the ablest performers on these instruments execute them.
In the lesson-scene she gave Rode's variations, and her execution of the second variation in arpeggios was pronounced infinitely superior to Catalani's.
It is played with two little mallets in the player's hands, and produces the weird arpeggios and improvised runs characteristic of Hungarian gypsy music.
This especial scherzo has a trio which in the broad sweep of its arpeggios is as modern sounding as anything Beethoven wrote for the pianoforte.
He extended the range of the violins, aided the independency of accompaniment by the frequent use of arpeggios in the strings, and was the first to use pizzicato chord effects in the entire body of strings at once.
The harp is used extensively, both inarpeggios and in broad chords.
Many points in his prolonged passages which are simply arpeggios of the chord of the diminished seventh must have seemed novel in the eighteen-forties, though we hardly notice them now.
He developed new combinations, and made free use of arpeggios and harmonic sounds.
My daily work simply consists of scales, arpeggios and the simplest kind of exercises, the simpler the better.
This does not mean that scales and arpeggios are to be avoided.
My exercises are for the most part simple scales, arpeggios or trills.
Therefore, I worked daily for four years, drilling myself with the greatest care in scales, arpeggios and sustained tones.
He toyed with the difficulties; his scales, his arpeggios were as a flash, a ripple of notes tumbling over one another, each one a pearl.
The Kapellmeister went on improvising arpeggios on the piano as if he had not heard.
This one plays a melody I do not know, a melody plaintive and ingratiating, of clarinet arpeggios all compact.
He had heard his father try the piano on the day of its arrival, and draw from it a little rain of arpeggios like the drops that a puff of wind shakes from the wet branches of a tree after a shower.
As Schulz expected hardly had Christophe struck a few arpeggios than the sound took possession of him; he went on striking chords and still talking; then there came whole phrases; and then he stopped talking and began to play.
For arpeggios and chords, the thumb may be used for the lower string, and the fingers for the upper strings.
Other styles of arpeggios bear more or less similarity to those which have here received treatment, with a little thought the student should now be able to determine which will be the most effective way of bowing.
Arpeggios are chords, the notes of which are sounded separately.
Arpeggios on three or four strings phrased as Example 47a should be played with alternate down and up bow strokes, always attacking the arpeggio commencing with the lower string with the down bow.
Thus we find the same melodic warmth as in Schubert, the rhythmic vitality and massive harmony so prominent in Schumann and the extended arpeggios and chords, the color and richness, peculiar to Chopin.
The Poem begins with soft, sustained calls on the horns, creating a mood of expectancy, interspersed with modulatory arpeggios on the harp serving to complete the legendary picture.
The movement ends with brilliant arpeggios in the pianoforte against octaves and double stops in the violin.
Then follows a long rhapsodic presentation of the first theme for pianoforte solo--the melody in octaves and the accompaniment in the widest arpeggios possible.
At N the 'cellos continue with phrases from the first theme, the accompaniment being in extended arpeggios against a background of sustained strings (ppp con sordino).
When will my arpeggios go up the piano in that peculiar roll that a genuine artist gives?
He was rolling up the piano in arpeggios in a very grand manner indeed, when he struck a semi-tone short of the high note upon which he had intended to end.
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