arpeggio
Example Sentences
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She came up with a swirling arpeggio effect, which Britell turned into a motif for the “memory of trauma.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022
DaBaby and Ricch’s “Rockstar,” Billboard’s official 2020 Song of Summer, was the most bewitching of the bunch, built out of a moody guitar arpeggio gentle enough for a country record.
From Slate • May 1, 2021
On the line, “I love you and you love me and that’s how it will always be and nothing else could ever mean a thing,” Mr. Bennett sings the line using a spiraling, ascending arpeggio.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 27, 2018
The Prelude of Bach’s Suite No. 1 for solo cello is mostly a sequence of chords played in flowing arpeggio figures.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2017
They conduct the genome, thereby playing out its music—activating the viola at the fourteenth minute, a crash of cymbals during the arpeggio, a roll of drums at the crescendo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
