arpeggio
Example Sentences
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Legend: I have this song called “Safe,” and there’s this one moment when I do this run and Sufjan has this arpeggio going the opposite direction.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024
Her voice sails over choppy piano chords as she announces her “big feelings,” and when she sings, “Yes, I have problems, problems,” she turns “problems” into a six-syllable arpeggio.
From New York Times • May 10, 2024
Co-orchestrator Todd Sickafoose responded to that flourish with one of his own, embellishing Mitchell’s score with a propulsive violin arpeggio in tune with the scene’s growing grandeur.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 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
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
Vocabulary lists containing arpeggio
The Joy Luck Club
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Music - Middle School
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"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan
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