Timeline for Glissando vs Arpeggio
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| Jul 7, 2022 at 16:05 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @Aaron Ah, gotcha. This was specifically about the reading of the arpeggio ornament, not arpeggios in general. | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 16:03 | comment | added | Aaron | @DarrelHoffman I'm saying that limiting arpeggios only to chords marked with an arpeggio line is too much. Arpeggios are any ascending or descending broken chord, including those explicitly written out note by note and not played as ornaments but as an integral part of the music. | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 15:59 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @Aaron Yes, they can go either way in any era, and sometimes there's an arrow on the arpeggio line to specify, but without the arrow, the default reading is low-to-high in classical-to-modern music, but was high-to-low in Bach's day. | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 15:15 | comment | added | Tim | @Aaron - is 'an arpeggio line' still the squiggly one, regardless? | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 15:14 | comment | added | Tim | @CarlWitthoft - in my part of the world, the only chirps seem to come from sparrows. | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 15:03 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | FWIW, in the Engineering World, a portamento is equivalent to a "chirped frequency," as opposed to any frequency changes of discrete step size. (except of course in the digital domain a chirp may be limited by the smallest 1-bit transition size). | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 14:19 | comment | added | Aaron | @DarrelHoffman "Arpeggio" is a broader term that you're considering. They appear up and down in every era. Chords marked with an arpeggio line, yes, downward first, then upward later. | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 13:58 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Arpeggios are bottom-to-top starting around the middle classical period to present. Prior to that, the default was top-to-bottom. So if you're playing, e.g. J.S. Bach, it's the reverse of what you'd expect from later composers. (A lot of Bach-era ornaments are flipped from what we'd expect in later music.) | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 9:26 | vote | accept | user87626 | ||
| Jul 7, 2022 at 9:00 | comment | added | Tim | Way too early to have chosen a preferred answer. Better ones may well surface later! So choosing early may deter them bothering. | |
| Jul 7, 2022 at 8:56 | vote | accept | user87626 | ||
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| Jul 7, 2022 at 7:59 | history | edited | Tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2022 at 7:41 | history | answered | Tim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |