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  • verb Present participle of arpeggiate.

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Examples

  • Spotlit on a black stage, Calvi has the guts to open her set with an instrumental track, "Rider To The Sea", made up solely of arpeggiating guitar tones.

    Meltdown round-up – review 2011

  • Spotlit on a black stage, Calvi has the guts to open her set with an instrumental track, "Rider To The Sea", made up solely of arpeggiating guitar tones.

    Meltdown round-up – review 2011

  • Something like — "When I die, I'll be busy re-voicing the harmonies in the accompaniment so the clarinets aren't arpeggiating across their break."

    Caveat lector Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Something like — "When I die, I'll be busy re-voicing the harmonies in the accompaniment so the clarinets aren't arpeggiating across their break."

    Archive 2009-05-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • He analyzes the melody and, planning the arpeggiating with scrupulous fidelity, he shows why the arpeggiating "must be affected with the utmost rapidity, bordering upon simultaneousness of harmony in the case of many chords."

    Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

  • Very large hands are tempted by their reach to crush the life out of the study in not arpeggiating it.

    Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890

  • Suddenly all those scratchy sums coalesce into arpeggiating organ tones - an uplifting end to a dense but fascinating show.

    Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2012

  • I had this drum pattern and an arpeggiating bass part that's pretty bouncy.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Is the XX about to become 'the next Radiohead/Coldplay' if they add enough arpeggiating piano riffs to their next album? local news piece or something, but also might be a 'trying too hard to be trendy' video by some sort of alternative web media startup from the, and tons of other crappy UK bands.

    Artrocker 2010

  • Centered on cascading guitars, arpeggiating piano and velvety voices that ring out with crystal clarity, "Used to Be" and "10 Mile Stereo" radiate shimmering warmth.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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