arpeggiate
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of arpeggiate
Example Sentences
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I had inexplicably lost the ability to arpeggiate.
From US News ● Apr. 27, 2015
Reviews of “People Watching” have nearly universally invoked Bruce Springsteen, and the critics aren’t wrong: With its gauzy keyboards and arpeggiated electric guitar, “Crumbling Empire” has some undeniable “I’m On Fire” energy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
If anything, the slowly accumulating final chord of the bagatelle could have set up the softly arpeggiated one at the start of “Twilight Way,” the first of the “Poetic Tone Pictures.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2023
Sondheim's tight, episodic rhyming lyrics, and twisting, arpeggiated, complicated music reveals so many intricacies about the life of a woman, particularly a woman of the theatre:
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2021
Wuorinen’s complaints against the commercial sheen of minimalism were certainly cranky, but they also proved eerily prescient: Every other ad on TV now features some form of aggressively arpeggiated piano or productive-sounding marimba.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2020
Chopin must have been sick of them, as sick of them as of the left-hand melody with arpeggiated accompaniment in the right, a la Thalberg.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
Alsop elevated its vaporous beds of arpeggiating strings and coolly undulating woodwinds into a beguiling texture, soon intruded upon by alarming outbursts from the horns.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2023
Mr. Glass’s arpeggiating, unhurried score, with a sung Sanskrit text drawn from the Bhagavad Gita, evokes Gandhi’s early activism in South Africa and his development of a philosophy of nonviolent resistance.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
The score is punctuated by a kind of signal: two pianos, tuned a quarter tone apart, arpeggiating upward into silence.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
The Stranger Things soundtrack—a Tangerine Dream/Alan Howarth–devotional horrorscape of arpeggiating synths—was celebrated enough to propel its composers, Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon of Survive, into becoming stars.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2016
Very large hands are tempted by their reach to crush the life out of the study in not arpeggiating it.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker
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