arpeggio

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

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

Ma’s greatest challenge, which he meets with wonderful musicianship, is to make Negrón’s engaging melodies, grand swaths of arpeggios, and simple patterns alluring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

The fourth becomes a sophisticated lesson in arpeggios and the last, a fanciful passacaglia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

“Dancing on the Ceiling” does the opposite, starting with very verbose Art Tatum-style arpeggios in the verse but then mellowing out in the chorus, and quoting “All This and Heaven Too.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

It’s synthpop swells and arpeggios feel like a pure-white LCD sunrise over a William Gibson landscape.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

That learning about the Pythagorean theorem and arpeggios and dissecting worms is the only thing that could keep her mind off it.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy