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
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
There were fine moments, like the subdued introduction to the first movement and the mysterious diminished arpeggio section of the second, but overall the playing was too loud and too harried in pacing.
From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 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.
