arpeggiated

• “Window Seat," which at first recalls the arpeggiated melody of Ms. Badu's 1997 debut single,”

  NYT > Home Page

• “They "arpeggiated" chords -- rolling the notes rather than depressing them all at once -- or "dislocated" occasional melodic notes by sounding them slightly ahead or behind the beat.”

  The Wall Street Journal: What Music Has Lost

• “Sweeping chords, which Joachim always played with the utmost breadth, are 'arpeggiated' in Moser's edition!”

  Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers

• “Dead hearts are everywhere," Millan and fellow Stars vocalist Torquil Campbell purr together atop piano and arpeggiated guitar chords in the album's opener ( "Dead Hearts").”

  The Huffington Post: Kristi York Wooten: Fixed on Stars' Paradoxical Pop

• “Although both musicians played with virtuosic speed and accuracy, Marais's "Plainte" was the highlight of this one-hour recital, a whispering thread of melody from the viol accompanied by gentle arpeggiated chords on the theorbo, making the lament an intense, personal cry of anguish.”

  The Washington Post: PERFORMING ARTS

• “Summer's multi-tracked voice floats over a kick drum, an arpeggiated bassline and sumptuous synths, with Giorgio Moroder's sublime production at the heart of this record.”

  The Guardian: Donna Summer's I Feel Love

• “Out of the silence, a single cello rises plaintively from a low E along an arpeggiated figure through an E-minor chord to a sustained high B, 2 ½ octaves higher, while the four other solo cellos lend warmth and harmony in E-minor.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera

• “The veiled mystery of the opening arpeggiated chords was wonderfully poised; and his understanding of the composer's revolutionary use of the sustaining pedal was revealed brilliantly in the finale of the Waldstein sonata, Op 54.”

  The Guardian: Llyr Williams

• “The most successfully extravagant performers are careful to dress their blingy entertainments in the mantle of Art. Liberace justified his showy show by ladling up Chopin along with the boogie-woogie and the arpeggiated ballads.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Lady Gaga and Liberace: Separated at Birth?

• “The harmonic strategy of his five-movement work is more layered than the slowed-down "U Smile," though both share a broad family resemblance with early minimalism, just as they do with the bleeping, arpeggiated hook of "Hang With Me," the new single from underground Swedish pop maestro Robyn.”

  Newsweek: The Accidental Minimalist

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