A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Battery

by J. A. Fuller-Maitland

BATTERY, one of the agrémens used in harpsichord music. The sign for its performance is identical with the curved form of the modern indication of the arpeggio (see i. 87 b, ex. 4, second chord), which implied that the chord to which it was prefixed was to be played twice in rapid succession.

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