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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

The material here is deceptively simple: undulating lines, sometimes slowed to expansive chords and sometimes sped to a Glass-style arpeggiated flood.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 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

Plus, they have a taste for bludgeoning arpeggiated synths straight out of Robyn’s playbook.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2019

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 Huneker, James