How do you pronounce Arpeggione?!
Question: I'm thinking of playing Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata on Cello but I kind of want to sound like I know what I'm talking about before bringing it up to my teacher if you know what I mean.
If anyone needs more info, arpeggione was an instrument made around the 1820s and was a fretted guitar/cello with 6 strings. It was bowed and had a bridge like the cello, without the endpin. The body was curved more like an acoustic guitar, and in short it died out since it wasn't the best instrument out there.
I personally have called it ar-pej-ee-own, but another friend calls it "ar-pej-ee-own-ee." None of the online musical dictionaries I looked up in had the pronunciations...
Thanks.
Answers: I'm thinking of playing Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata on Cello but I kind of want to sound like I know what I'm talking about before bringing it up to my teacher if you know what I mean.
If anyone needs more info, arpeggione was an instrument made around the 1820s and was a fretted guitar/cello with 6 strings. It was bowed and had a bridge like the cello, without the endpin. The body was curved more like an acoustic guitar, and in short it died out since it wasn't the best instrument out there.
I personally have called it ar-pej-ee-own, but another friend calls it "ar-pej-ee-own-ee." None of the online musical dictionaries I looked up in had the pronunciations...
Thanks.
Try this...
ar pej gee oh nai
there are 5 syllables in the pronunciation, not 4
This pronunciation guide has it a little different
http://iowapublicradio.org/dictionary/
http://iowapublicradio.org/dictionary/A....
[control f "arpeggione"] on the .pdf
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