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Updated: May 15, 2025
On page 81 in his life of Chopin he has the courage to write: "Had Professor Niecks applied the term monotonous to No. 12 we should have been more ready to indorse his opinion, as, although great power is manifested, the very 'sameness' of the form of the arpeggio figure causes a certain amount of monotony to be felt.
Of course scales must be carefully studied, with various accents, rhythms and tonal dynamics; arpeggios also. Many arpeggio forms of value may be culled from compositions. "There are, as we all know, certain fundamental principles that underlie all correct piano study, though various masters may employ different ways and means to exemplify these fundamentals.
The one who could play the trill perfectly might not be able, under any circumstance, to play an arpeggio with the requisite smoothness and true legato demanded, while the student who found the trill impossible possesses the ability to run arpeggios and cadenzas with the fluency of a forest rivulet.
"I was dining with a friend, and we took things lazily." "And now you expect to sing?" Arlt's accent was rebuking. "Yes. I walked down here to get myself into condition. How is it? Are you feeling nervous over the prospect?" Arlt had seated himself at the grand piano which completely filled one end of the dreary room. Now he drew a protesting arpeggio from the black keys and shook his head.
Sometimes he held the violin between his knees, playing on it as on a cello; then he caught it to his breast again in a sudden fury of improvisation an arpeggio, light and running, his fingers barely touching the strings the snatch of a theme a trill, low and passionate the rush of a scale. He toyed with the Stradivarius mocking it, clasping it, listening.
So long as Germany held that she was undefeated. With that gone she was at the mercy of the Allies. But much had to be done before the Hindenburg line could be attacked. Foch and Haig, with Debeney, Mangin, Gouraud, and Pershing in support, played a great arpeggio it is Mr. Buchan's word, and a most graphic one on the linked line of the Allies.
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