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broken chord
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broken chord
Music a chord played as an arpeggio


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Once we had settled ourselves in D Major, we began to look at the left-hand accompaniment patterns, and while the student practiced a broken-chord figuration, the teacher played some of the Pachelbel melodic lines, improvising a few new ones along the way.
Developing creativity by Case, Maria; Hisey, Andrew / American Music Teacher
Some hymns have a walking bass line, and almost all have arpeggio and broken-chord patterns.
Sunday Morning Pianist by Hull, Kathryn B. / American Music Teacher
They feature many technical challenges found in the romantic masterworks: "three-layer" textures, hand-over-hand technique, left-hand melodies, expansive broken-chord figures, scale runs and use of the keyboard's entire register.
Romantic Rhapsodies-Book 2 (Composers in Focus) by Weber, Stephen / American Music Teacher
 
 
 
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