arpeggiate
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of arpeggiate
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I had inexplicably lost the ability to arpeggiate.
From US News ● Apr. 27, 2015
The song she co-wrote for “Twisters” is built on a simple, repeating, arpeggiated riff on its two main chords, generating a contemplative sound, evoking a long drive on a flat, open highway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
A flute, hazy and lightly arpeggiated, introduced melody to the mix, which grew richer: percussion in the familiar falling interval of bird song in classical music, and harmonic runs in the strings.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
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
Presently, a flowing melody in the bass begins against a pianissimo, arpeggiated accompaniment in the right hand, with a very charming and thoroughly pianistic effect, and the praeludium is carried through on this motive.
From The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
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
On the opener, “Big Day Coming,” a lone organ fades in slowly over the course of a minute, arpeggiating a dawning, two-chord pattern.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 24, 2014
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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