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Arpeggiation
Various notations were used to indicate arpeggiation in the music of the period. These included the vertical wavy or
curved line and the notation of the arpeggiation in small notes. Mozart, for instance, sometimes used the wavy line and
sometimes the small notes: in his Violin Sonata K. 306 he used one form in the initial draft of the first movement (Ex.
16.21(a)) and the other in the final version (Ex. 16.21(b).) Other signs were used for specialized treatments of
arpeggiation; for instance, as explained by Clementi and others, 1169 where a grace-note or acciaccatura was required
before one note of the arpeggio this might be indicated by a slanting line through the note to which the ornament
should be added (Ex. 16.22.)
Ex. 16.21. Mozart, Violin Sonata K. 306/i
1169 Clementi, Introduction, 9.
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