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Alberti bass is a particular kind of accompaniment
Accompaniment

In music, accompaniment is the art of playing along with a solo ist or Musical ensemble, often known as the lead, in a supporting manner as well as the music thus played....
 in music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, often used in the Classical era, and sometimes the romantic one. It was named after Domenico Alberti
Domenico Alberti

Domenico Alberti was an Italy singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque Music and Classical Music Era periods.Alberti was born in Venice and studied music with Antonio Lotti....
 (1710-1740), who used it extensively, although he was not the first to use it.

Alberti bass is a kind of broken chord or arpeggiated
Arpeggio

In music, an arpeggio is a broken Chord where the notes are played or sung in sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously....
 accompaniment, where the notes of the chord
Chord (music)

In music and music theory a chord is a set of two or more different note that sound simultaneously. Most often, in European-influenced music, chords are tertian Sonority that can be constructed as stacks of thirds relative to some underlying musical scale....
 are presented in the order lowest, highest, middle, highest. This pattern is then repeated.

Alberti bass is usually found in the left hand of pieces for keyboard instrument
Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
s, especially for Mozart's Piano Pieces.






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Alberti bass is a particular kind of accompaniment
Accompaniment

In music, accompaniment is the art of playing along with a solo ist or Musical ensemble, often known as the lead, in a supporting manner as well as the music thus played....
 in music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, often used in the Classical era, and sometimes the romantic one. It was named after Domenico Alberti
Domenico Alberti

Domenico Alberti was an Italy singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque Music and Classical Music Era periods.Alberti was born in Venice and studied music with Antonio Lotti....
 (1710-1740), who used it extensively, although he was not the first to use it.

Alberti bass is a kind of broken chord or arpeggiated
Arpeggio

In music, an arpeggio is a broken Chord where the notes are played or sung in sequence, one after the other, rather than ringing out simultaneously....
 accompaniment, where the notes of the chord
Chord (music)

In music and music theory a chord is a set of two or more different note that sound simultaneously. Most often, in European-influenced music, chords are tertian Sonority that can be constructed as stacks of thirds relative to some underlying musical scale....
 are presented in the order lowest, highest, middle, highest. This pattern is then repeated.

Alberti bass is usually found in the left hand of pieces for keyboard instrument
Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organ s as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic musical instrument....
s, especially for Mozart's Piano Pieces. However, it is also found in pieces for other instruments. For example Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók

B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
 uses it towards the end of his String Quartet No. 5
String Quartet No. 5 (Bartók)

The String Quartet No. 5 Sz. 102, BB 110 by B?la Bart?k was written between August 6 and September 6, 1934.The work is in five movements:...
.

A well known example of Alberti bass is found at the beginning of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
's Piano Sonata, K 545:

Mozart K545 Opening