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
Details are fastidious; in “I Drink Wine,” she sings “I’m trying to keep climbing up” while her voice rises in an upward arpeggio.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021
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
It crackles, and a stormy arpeggio from the final movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata bursts forth.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
